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Market dance Local Morris dancers entertain at the Oak Bay Night Market Wednesday (Aug. 12).

The traditional English folk dancing features a variety of different dances performed by both women and men, to a background of live folk music. The final night market for the season is scheduled for Sept. 9.

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Police department seeks new Reserve Constables Volunteer service can be a stepping stone to a future career Pirjo Raits News staff

If you’ve ever wondered about life as a police officer, you can check it out before committing, and help your community at the same time.

The Oak Bay Police Department is recruiting Reserve Constables to beef up its ranks.

Oak Bay Police Sgt. Rob Smith said the Reserve Constables are unpaid volunteers but the group can provide the perfect training for people with aspirations of being on a regular police force.

“It’s a stepping stone to see if it appeals to them,” Smith said.

The Oak Bay Police is one of 12 municipal police forces in the province. Smith said British Columbia is an exception as most provinces have provincial police forces.

“In B.C. the RCMP is the provincial police force,” he said.

Potential recruits for the Reserve Con-

stables receive extensive training in areas ranging from legal studies to the use of force. Reserves do not carry guns but are trained in self-defence, hand-to-hand combat, use of tasers and other suppression techniques. Strict rules govern what their duties are.

Smith, once an auxiliary constable himself, said at one time Reserves were armed.

Today, the program has Reserve Constables as backups and dealing with crime prevention and community policing.

Reserves are uniformed, trained in traffic direction and accompany regular officers

on patrol.

In fact, many of the reserves are retired police officers.

“Where we use them most is in community events – the reserves are invaluable,” Smith said, noting that for community events such as runs and cycling events, the non-profit group has to have a traffic plan and Reserve Constables can be used rather than a regular police officer. There is also a “sharing” with Saanich reserves if need be.

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Applicants for the reserves have to be between the ages of 19 and 60, live with the Capital Regional District and not have a criminal record. The requirements get a bit more stringent once the applicants are short-listed.

Smith said that they Applications for the next Reserve Constable seek applicants who course must be received by Sept. 15 have a good balance B.C. driver’s licence and be willing of life experience. Misdeeds as a youth don’t necessarily to commit to serving 12 to 16 hours a month. disqualify someone from applying. “Most put in a lot more than that,� “You have to have lived a little bit of life to deal with people,� Smith Smith said.

Successful candidates must comsaid. “We don’t expect perfection but plete the basic Reserve Officers we do have to cover ourselves. “We have a lot of people interested training mandated by the BC Ministry of Justice. Trainwho are established takes about community mem“Where we use them ing four months with bers, have families classes held one and great careers. most is in community evening a week and They want to give events – the reserves are one weekend day, back to the commuand includes both nity in this particu- invaluable.� practical and writlar way,� Smith said. – Sgt. Rob Smith ten exams.

The Oak Bay The next Reserve Police Department Constable course currently has four Reserve Constables and is opening is scheduled to start in November. up two spots. The Saanich Police are Applications must be received prior running the training program and to Sept. 15.

For more information or to apply offered two spots to Oak Bay. “The training is transferable,� to the OBPD Reserve Program, contact Sgt. Rob Smith at 250-592-2424 or Smith said.

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Urban Systems and Carollo Associates will provide detailed costing and technical analysis for distributed options in partnership with the Eastside and Westside communities that integrate and account for all the flows in the Core Area communities. They will also cost a range of potential wastewater treatment systems at Rock Bay. The wastewater treatment plans are expected to be shared with the public for input in the fall. The plans will provide the detailed costing and “apples to apples� comparison requested by the public and are expected to ultimately form the basis for an amendment to the Core Area Liquid Waste Management Plan. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com

The Capital Regional Dis- the biggest project to date in trict’s Core Area Liquid Waste the CRD and it is vital that it is Management Committee made done right,� Coady said.

Kim Cholette was named Fairthree important decisions last week to guide its work on ness and Transparency Advisor costing options in the coming to ensure the process of costing the options, working with the months.

The CALWMC secured techni- host jurisdictions and preparcal support to conduct detailed ing an amendment to the Liqanalysis and engineering work, uid Waste Management Plan is selected six individuals to the fair, transparent, impartial and objective.

Technical OverCholette has sight Panel a Master of Busiand chose a Fairness and Email editor@oakbaynews.com ness Administration and her Transparency extensive expeAdvisor. “The calibre of candidates and firms rience in the area of legislative that applied for each of these reviews, administrative fairness roles speaks to a renewed con- assessments, and public sector fidence in the project,� said Vic- policy and program developtoria Mayor Lisa Helps, commit- ment was honed over 20 years tee chair. “Elected officials now working in the public sector in have world-class expertise at B.C. and the Yukon.

Urban Systems, partnered our fingertips and in particular a good balance between lead- with Carollo Associates, was ing edge innovation and exten- awarded the contract to consive experience in capital proj- duct the Feasibility and Costect management and costing, ing Analysis for the CRD’s Core Area Liquid Waste Management including lifecycle costing.�

Teresa Coady is chair of the Plan Wastewater Treatment SysTechnical Oversight Panel that tem.

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Private jobs fall, self-employment up The unemployment rate in B.C. held steady at six per cent in July, with a reduction in private-sector jobs offset by increased public sector employment and self-employment.

BC Stats reported that private sector employment fell by 4,500 jobs from June, while private sector jobs grew by 1,800 and the number of selfemployed rose by 2,100.

Compared to July 2014, self-employment was up by 9,800 while private sector employment was down 8,300.

B.C.’s unemployment rate tied with Alberta for third lowest in the country in July. Saskatchewan was lowest with 5.2 per cent and Manitoba second lowest at 5.8 per cent, compared with a national rate of 6.8 per cent. B.C.’s commodity exports increased 9.1 per cent in June, with increases in forestry products, farm and fishing products and energy. Exports were up 12.8 per cent to the U.S. and 5.1 per cent to the rest of the world.

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Research, luck and a little help sends 140-year-old Bible home Jennifer Blyth Oak Bay News

It took considerable research, a healthy dose of luck and some divine intervention, but a 140-year-old Bible is back with its original family in England after decades across the Atlantic.

Perry Bamji, a member of Oak Bay Rotary, and his wife, Annamaria, came across the Bible 40 years ago when they were newly married and setting up their home in the English town of Banbury, Oxfordshire.

Searching the local auction for furniture, Annamaria, an art historian, was tempted to purchase an “odds and ends” box of books, contents unknown.

Tucked inside, in addition to two titles dating from 1774 and an 1805 dictionary, was a beautiful 1874 Bible.

When the Bamjis moved to Canada in 1981, the Bible came with them, first to their home in Kingston, Ont., where Perry, an electrical engineer, taught at Queens University until 2006, when they moved to Fairfield.

As the couple downsized from a larger home into a condominium, certain things had to go and the Bible, while much loved, was too big for their space.

A skilled researcher, Annamaria then set about trying to find the Bible’s original family, starting with the book itself.

“The first page is always the family page. They had taken it

out (when they sent it to auction) but they forgot to tear off the middle pages, which has the marriages, births and deaths,” Annamaria says.

After more than a year combing through Internet files, Annamaria contacted a former colleague and historian, John Webb, who still lived in Oxfordshire, asking if he knew any families with the names represented on the Bible’s family pages: Fenemore, Boddington and White.

As is happened, in a completely unrelated coincidence, Webb had in fact met a George Fenemore at an Oxfordshire cancer clinic. Thinking he could possibly be an ancestor of the Fenemore family listed in the Bible, Webb put Annamaria in touch with Fenemore. After conducting a little of his own research in the U.K., Fenemore concluded that the Bible had indeed belonged to his ancestors. “[For John Webb] to know

just one Fenemore and for it to be the right one, it was very strange,” Annamaria says.

The Bamjis wanted to send the valuable Bible as a gift, and asked only that the Fenemores pay the postage for the 5.5-kilogram book, which they were happy to do, Annamaria says.

The serendipity didn’t end there, however.

Upon receiving the Bible in Oxfordshire, Fenemore opened it at random to an image of St. Peter.

He later told the Bamjis he had been warden of St. Peter’s Church for 40 years. “I have a feeling there is a bit of Divine intervention,” he reflected in an email.

The Bamjis are pleased the Bible is back with its original family.

“We have enjoyed this Bible in our homes for well over 40 years and it is now returned to its home in the custody of George Fenmore and the family members who follow him,” Perry says.

“It has gone home,” Annamaria agrees. editor@oakbaynews.com

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Oak Bay Rotarian Perry Bamji and his wife, Annamaria, with a selection of antique books found in a box from auction more than 40 years ago along with a 140-year-old Bible, which has now been returned to its original family, the Fenemores, in England (below).

George Fenemore, son Chris Fenemore and grandson Ben Fenemore, with John Webb, an historian, Rotarian and family friend of Victoria’s Bamji family who connected both sides of the Atlantic to repatriate the 140-year-old Bible.

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Sculpture donation a tribute to beloved son

Oak Bay resident Jocelyn Floyer made a significant contribution – in honour of her late son Russell Ney – to help the district purchase the Salish Sea sculpture that adorns Turkey Head near the Oak Bay Marina.

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The Salish Sea sculpture adjacent to Oak Bay Marina speaks to Jocelyn Floyer. It harkens back to memories of her late son Russell Ney. Floyer discovered the sculpture while lunching with daughter Tara Ney, who is also

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In Russell’s honour, “She so quickly got Floyer donated $5,000 what this meant,� Ney says. “It just went deep toward the bid to make the Salish Sea Oak into her soul what this Bay’s first publiclypiece of art was trying owned piece of fine art. to do.� “That sculpture is Floyer always held really like a metaphor a fascination with the for where we are movFirst Nations of our ing forward with aFirst province and as a Nations,� said Barbara youngster visited the Adams, arts laureate museum. Then based for Oak Bay. east of the legislative Salish Sea was origibuildings, it boasted a basement full of aborig- nally installed as part of a proinal items. gram last “I was “He brought summer just drawn, and I was the First Nations where artists loaned the only energy with him, works to person display in who went that connection Oak Bay. down to the earth. We It was there,�

Floyer were so lucky to the start of a vision recalls. Frehave him.� for Adams, quent sit– Jocelyn Floyer and the ings in her first piece James Bay of publicly neighbourowned art hood of would kick Emily Carr off that vision. and her menagerie She envisions an also strengthened that “art amble� of six art interest. spaces linked by 20 “They’re so connected to their environ- standalone installations. ment, and that’s what Earlier this year, Oak this piece does,� Floyer Bay council approved says. “You become connected to the earth, the siting where the $24,000 sculpture curthe sky, the water.� rently sits, adjacent For Floyer, who now to Oak Bay Marina, lives in Oak Bay, the and establish a Public Salish Sea sculpture Art Fund within the

by Coast Salish artist reserve fund for donaChris Paul connects tions and bequests her to Russell, who designated to public died in 2004 of a heart art. attack. He was 38.

Stage 1 involved “[Salish Sea] is so purchase and replacehim. He was so spement of the temporary cial. Every time I look installation pad with at that [sculpture] he an estimated $28,000 comes through,� she price tag. says.

Funding today is Floyer adopted Rusaround $10,000. Stage sell at five months old, 2 would include an during the controverarts space, featuring a sial “’60s scoop,� in performance area adjawhich First Nations children were removed cent to the sculpture framed by bench boulfrom their aboriginal ders and the sidewalk homes. She’d had a miscarriage and simply curving around it with an expected $10,000 “had the room.� “He brought the First budget. “We want to get Nations energy with him, that connection to Stage 1 done before the the earth,� Floyer says. rains come,� Adams said. “This is the first “We were so lucky to fine art installation Oak have him.�

Bay will own.� “He could sit in Go online to oakbay. chaos and observe and just be present,� added ca/parks-recreation/ planned-giving/publicsister Monique Ney. art/public-art-fund to Russell found his learn more about how first family and reconnected with them eight to fund Oak Bay public art. years before his death. cvanreeuwyk “He did find his birth @oakbaynews.com family too, and went

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Brushing up along Bowker Fans of many different artistic disciplines enjoyed a picturesque stroll along Bowker Creek Sunday for the annual Bowker Creek Brush Up, hosted by the Oak Bay Community Artists Society.

Joan Turner (top) joins the fun for her 11th time, thrilling passers-by with her colourful paintings.

Robert Amos (right) demonstrates his technique from a shady spot beneath the trees, while Claire Christinel (below) takes a break amid a bright display of original artworks and art cards.

With paper and pastels from Oak Bay artist Bonnie Myers young artists add their creations to the display (below left), while Oak Bay High student Holly Partridge (left) demonstrates her talents during her first Brush Up experience.

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OUR VIEW

Don’t let tree fruit fall to waste

As Oak Bay resident and author and poet Frank Wilson shows on page A7, harvest season has come early to the West Coast.

Many apple trees and other garden mainstays are producing bumper crops, yet as with seasons past, that same fruit is often left to fall to the ground to be food for insects and other creatures.

Visitors to Wednesday’s Oak Bay Night Market might have stopped to chat with Emily Thiessen, with Lifecycles, which undertakes the Fruit Tree Project, among their other initiatives.

The project harnesses the power of volunteers to harvest apples, cherries, pears, and other fruit from privately owned trees that would otherwise go to waste. The bounty is then shared among a variety of recipients, including homeowners and volunteers, but also food banks and a variety of local community organizations.

In fact, last year, Lifecycles collected and redistributed close to 30,000 pounds of fruit that would have otherwise gone to waste.

Creating a truly “value added” program, a portion of the harvest is also set aside to make products that help defray costs. Those at the market might have seen the Spinnakers vinegars crafted from a previous harvest, for example. A delectable quince paste from Oak Bay’s Marina Restaurant, with fair trade organic cane sugar from Level Ground Trading, is another popular product.

With such a huge amount of fruit already saved from waste, how much more could be done, with even greater support and more volunteers? Fruit tree owners can register online at lifecyclesproject.ca, however without volunteer pickers, the fruit will remain on the tree – and eventually on the ground.

“Volunteers are the core of our project and crucial to the success of the Fruit Tree Project so we would love for you to come and volunteer...,” organizers say. “Help out in backyards or behind the scenes, and you’ll get to take home fruit.”

Delicious idea!

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With more time, will more voters care?

Several readers took me to task for last focused on foreign policy hosted by week’s commentary on the beginning of Munk Debates, a charitable foundation. Harper, Trudeau and Mulcair have our long, hot federal election campaign.

They pointed out, among other things, accepted. May and Bloc Quebecois that there are substantial cost increases leader Gilles Duceppe were not invited to Elections Canada as well as higher to either of these.

The national media have decided that spending limits for the parties. And thanks to generous tax deductions for the biggest issue currently is the trial of suspended senator Mike Duffy, political donations, taxpayers but this has turned out to be subsidize all party spending a rehash of facts and asserwhether they want to or not. tions heard many times over That’s the system as it by those who care. is today, so rather than rail The expense account abuse against it, it seems more usehas pushed the issue of senate ful to ask what we’re getting reform to the forefront. Harper for our forced investment in declared his intention to starve this exercise. the Senate by refusing any First, more leader debates. more appointments, after most The traditional main event provinces ignored his call to organized by TV networks for Oct. 8 appears to be a Tom Fletcher elect their nominees.

Trudeau, having expelled all bust, with only Liberal leader B.C. Views Liberal senators from the party Justin Trudeau and Green caucus, has warned that HarpParty leader Elizabeth May expected to attend. Conservative leader er’s plan and Mulcair’s long-standing Stephen Harper declined, prompt- position to abolish the Senate are both ing NDP leader Thomas Mulcair to say unworkable, if not unconstitutional. he will only take part in debates that Trudeau has promised changes to the senate appointment process, but no speinclude Harper.

Harper, Trudeau and Mulcair have cifics so far.

Party policies are being doled out agreed to a Sept. 17 debate hosted by The Globe and Mail and Google Canada. one bit at a time, and the national and This one is to be focused on the econ- local candidate debates may help clarify omy, which should force participants them. Here are a couple that could use to get beyond their talking points and closer scrutiny.

Harper has promised to revive a stimpointing fingers.

On Sept. 28 there will be a debate ulus program from the 2009 economic

crisis, offering a 15 per cent tax credit for home improvements between $1,000 and $5,000. This sounds great if you’re a homeowner, but does nothing for renters, drives up the cost of housing in already overpriced urban markets and encourages more consumer debt.

Trudeau has promised an additional $2.6 billion over four years for First Nations education on reserves, and accelerated spending on school infrastructure.

Mulcair has promised to hold a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women. Mulcair and Trudeau both pledge to reverse the Conservative moves to eliminate what’s left of door-to-door mail delivery, and to extend the age of eligibility for the Old Age Security pension from 65 to 67.

All of these promises are presented in the most appealing way possible by the parties that promote them, and all involve spending and taxation trade-offs that the parties would prefer not to discuss.

Another possible dividend from a formal campaign stretching more than two months is that more voters will pay attention to the real issues and actually take the time to cast a ballot. If that happens, and the long decline in voter turnout is reversed, it’s a good investment.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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YOUR VIEW Editor’s note: With his 90-year-old Kings apple tree flourishing in this long, hot summer, Oak Bay author Frank Wilson was inspired to share the following poem:

Let the Apple-Man come Breakfast coffee breathes bitter-sweet Arabica through my curling tiredness and heavy with Adam’s gift I know that he will be here soon with his sacks and painful ladders.

Spent moon-pennies droop in late heat as children scrabble through Indian summer scrunch-dry shade, til like a mother easing away a babe from her breast each is love-turned off the bough.

The lunar harvest’s juice-stained shadows remind me that fulsome payment time is here when they will be carefully box-packed in yesterday’s news and I will try to delay my nakedness.

So let the apple-man come, it is time to accept an ending that I may start the new beginning, as one by one and ten by ten my fine flags float-drop away and I take my loss to rest.

Bramble-infused jellies will bubble and blow kitchen tastes into my dreaming winter garden and I will stand cold empty, bleak yet fruitfully content that once again, the apple-man came.

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Thank you for another great Oak Bay car show port and financial aid from the Thank you Ken Agate.

Every year in August, Oak Bay municipal government.

He started this event when he Village receives thousands of new visitors and thousands of dollars owned and operated the Bletherof new business thanks to the con- ing Place (another institution that put Oak Bay on the tinual efforts of one map and it remains lone soldier putting “Oak Bay is a imprinted in the on the annual Oak Bay Collector Car better place thanks to memories of generations of visitors Festival.

Ken Agate.” from all parts of the Estimated num- Bobb Hamilton world). bers are 12,000 to Initially Ken had 15,000 people. much to gain from This is unquestionably the biggest street event in Oak the popular event. Now he does it because he is a genuine commuBay’s history, period.

Held on a Sunday, when there nity citizen and a valuable advoare usually less than a hundred cate of Oak Bay. As residents and business ownpeople on the street at any given time, Ken Agate organizes, takes ers, we need to salute him and on the risk and foots the bill for commend the amazing show he puts on each year. the event.

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Tweed cyclist missing key piece of safety gear

on your front page Aug. 12 showing so many cyclists flying the flag in their stylish tweeds ... well done all, says I. But then there always has to be one joker in the pack, doesn’t there ... this time in the shape of a clown who not only seemed to consider himself above the “dress code” but also outside the law that requires all cyclists to wear protective headwear.

What an example to all the children involved.

I hope the long arm of the law reached out and grabbed him if only in tribute to all the others who donned what is essential for everyone’s safety.

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Mother Nature creates ideal traditional ceremony Songhees, Oak Bay come together for canoe welcome and community picnic Christine van Reeuwyk Oak Bay News

After weeks of sunshine and dry weather, a warm, light summer drizzle dampened

things enough to create intimacy for a cultural bond between two nations in Oak Bay. Sparkling sun shone as dignitaries boarded a canoe at Oak Bay Marina followed by a short cultural tour with a Songhees guide before heading to Willows Beach.

“The most powerful thing was it was foggy and the fog lifted. We went on the water and we had a beautiful ride,” said Mark Salter, cultural tourism development for the Songhees Nation.

“The very second we stepped out of the canoe to come to shore it started to rain.”

Pulled through the waters by the Songhees youth racing team ‘Savage 11,’ the canoe held Kevin Murdoch, Tara Ney, Eric Zhelka and Hazel Braithwaite along with MLA Andrew Weaver, Murray Rankin and Oak Bay High student Brandon Schellenberger.

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“The chief spoke very elegantly and at length about the significance of the event.

This was a really good expression of that growing relationship of mutual respect. It got personal … the group got smaller and smaller as the rain got bigger.”

It was a day to drop the Tweed curtain and raise the camas veil, Salter says.

As part of the opening festivities for the Oak Bay Arts and Culture Festival that finished Sunday.

“It was a welcoming ceremony on the shores of Oak Bay for the first time in over a century,” said Coun.

Hazel Braithwaite who served as MC for the day.

“It was probably one of the most emotional and moving things I’ve ever done as a councillor. It was just so meaningful. There were times I was holding back the tears.”

Songhees Chief Ron Sam, dressed in traditional regalia greeted the canoe at the shoreline, the beach by then quite full with residents and guests.

“This is a fairly traditional ceremony,” said Coun. Kevin Murdoch.

“It reflects what happened in the times when travel happened by canoe. As acting mayor I asked permis-

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Members of the Songhees Nation bring Oak Bay councillors, MLA Andrew Weaver and federal NDP candidate Murray Rankin to shore at Willows Beach for a traditional welcome ceremony to launch the recent Oak Bay Arts and Culture Festival. sion to come ashore and Chief Sam spoke very eloquently and welcomed us ashore.”

The little bit of rain, drove some people home allowing for a genuine and honest exchange between the community and the people of Oak Bay, Salter said.

By the time the speeches were done, the crowd had dwindled to create a more personal setting.

“The rain and the reduced crowd as a result made the presentation and comments much more intimate and personal and emotional. It was quite powerful. Everybody there was really quite impacted by it,” Murdoch said.

“It was also recognizing that history with

the Songhees Nation and First Nations on the land and that foundation that led to Oak Bay. … Having the chance to participate in that as acting mayor was pretty special. It was for me personally a very special moment.”

Perhaps that’s what inspired Songhees elder Joan Morris, traditional name Sellemah, to present him with a spur-of-themoment blanket after offering her planned prayer.

“It just happened and I think that’s the most genuine,” Salter said.

Sellemah is the last surviving member of the Chatham Island community, and lived her first two decades on the Island adjacent

to Oak Bay. The Songhees own Chatham Island and a fair chunk of Discovery Island, which is also the site of a provincial park.

They are not disputed territories, but established reserves that have also been home to the Songhees for thousands of years.

The event finished with a performance by the Lekwungen dancers and residents and guests coming to gather for a community picnic. “[This ceremony] was a really good opportunity for us to enhance our relationship with the Songhees,” Braithwaite said. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com

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Q In the tradition of creating an oral history, Oak Bay High student Brandon Shellenberger was invited as a witness to the events that took place so that he could then pass the story along to other youth throughout the school year. When it comes time to celebrate Sno’uyutth, a welcome pole set to be raised at Oak Bay High School this fall, his duty is to regale his peers and cohorts with a detailed oral account of what occurred Aug. 8 on the shores of Willows beach.

“Their job is to be a witness. They come, they listen and bear witness to events,” said Mark Salter.

“They have an obligation to do well by it. That’s a part of the oral cultural history. That’s how you make sure the stories get told and get told properly. That way this whole event will be told in Oak Bay to a cohort of young people who can tell their families.”

“It begins a new tradition.”

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The Canadian Forces Snowbirds (431 Air Demonstration Squadron) entertain above the skies of Victoria and Oak Bay Wednesday (Aug. 12). The Snowbirds were performing as a fundraiser for the C.H.I.L.D. Foundation for children with intestinal and liver disorders.

Country classics concert supports Sno’uyutth project Country classics will meet modern fare as the Lebeau Petersen Family Band tackles The Oaks in a benefit concert this Saturday (Aug. 22) in support of the Sno’uyutth project.

Connie Lebeau and Niels Petersen are veterans of the Canadian music scene. They recently returned to Victoria after several years singing together nightly on an exclusive, 250-person cruise ship.

Before that they ran a Victoria music school, lead their own bands and played thousands of dates with Raffi, Valdy, Gary Fjellgaard and other stars of Canadian music.

The duo is ably backed by another Canadian music great, Norm McPherson. McPherson’s early career included the band Skylark with a young David Foster. As a studio musician, the guitarist has played on thousands of recordings.

For this special concert at The Oaks, the band will be joined by Connie and Niels’ daughter, Danielle Petersen. Danielle leads her own jazz band at Pagliacci’s, and the talented jazz diva’s vocal harmonies with her parents on a repertoire of great country tunes is described as country music heaven on earth.

The 20-foot pole, designed by

Butch Dick and carved by his son, Clarence Dick, is more than two-thirds complete and set to be raised in October at the Oak Bay High School. The Oak Bay Community Association has raised more than $75,000 of the project’s $88,000 budget.

The Lebeau Petersen Band sold out The Oaks for a January benefit performance. Country Night at The Oaks starts at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22. Tickets are $20 in advance at The Oaks, 2250 Oak Bay Ave., and $25 at the door.

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Thursday, Aug. 20 Volkssport – Thursday evening walk. Meet at Pearkes Rec Centre, 3100 Tillicum Rd. Registration at 5:45 p.m.; walk at 6 p.m.

Classic Movie Nights – Singin’ in the Rain, 7 to 10 p.m. at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel’s David Foster Foundation Theatre. Movies show Friday evenings in July and August and include a gourmet

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Saturday, Aug. 22 Volkssport – 5/10km walk. Meet at King’s Road Parking Lot, off Shelbourne Street.

Registration at 9:30 a.m., walk at 10 a.m.

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Victoria Summer Choir – 10th year anniversary concert, 7 p.m. at St. Mary’s Anglican Church, 1701 Elgin Rd. Tickets $20 at the door, or in advance from Ivy’s Bookshop, Russell Books and Long & McQuade. For information, call 250590-6335.

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The Savour Cowichan Festival, September 25th through October 4th in the beautiful Cowichan Valley.

A celebration of this area’s spectacular cornucopia of locally grown and produced food and drink — all in support of Canucks Autism Network programs in the Cowichan Valley. Over 10 days, you’re invited to 60 events where you can literally get a taste of the world-class epicurean industry that’s emerging here. Participants include vineyards, orchards, farm stands, a cidery, restaurants, markets, breweries, cafes, theatres and more. Featured tasting events include “Barge on In”, “Chemainus Tastings”, “Cowichan Bay Day” and “Sip Savour & Support”. It all kicks off September 25th and tickets sell early! To get yours and for a complete schedule of events visit www.savourcowichan.com Proceeds raised support Canucks Autism Network programs in the Cowichan Valley.

Ryder Hesjedal’s Tour de Victoria – Register to join the ride or head to Beach Drive to cheer on others, including the 2015 Tour de Rock team. No highway riding. Cyclists of all ages and abilities are welcome. For information visit www. tourdevictoria.com.

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Thursday, Aug. 27 Volkssport – Thursday evening walk. Meet at Pearkes Rec Centre, 3100 Tillicum Rd. Registration at 5:45 p.m.; walk at 6 p.m.

Contact is George, 250.386-1279.

Friday, Aug. 28 Classic Movie Nights – Some Like it Hot, 7 to 10 p.m. at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel’s David Foster Foundation Theatre. Movies show Friday evenings in July and August and include a gourmet individual pizza, house-made buttered popcorn and an ice cream sandwich for dessert.

Info: 250-598-4556.

Saturday, Aug. 29 Summer Star Parties – Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, 5071 West Saanich Rd., 7:30 to 11 p.m.

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km walk. Meet at 2401G Millstream Rd. Registration is at 9:30 a.m., walk at 10 a.m.

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Heritage site cycling tour – Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition tour of heritage houses and buildings, with commentary about the properties provided by the Hallmark Heritage Society, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. beginning at the old Craigflower School, 2755 Admirals Rd. Bring a lunch. Info: www.gvcc.bc.ca

Monday, Aug. 31 Volkssport – Monday and Wednesday morning walks.

Registration at 8:45 a.m.; walk at 9 a.m. For furthr information, contact Rick at 250478-7020 or Jan at 250665-6062.

Monday, Sept. 7 SingYourJoy Young Adult Chorus – Fall 2015 season start-up, 7 to 9 p.m. (doors at 6 p.m.) at Oak Bay United Church, 1355 Mitchell St. New and returning singers (age 16 to 29) for the first two weeks; no cost.

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Oak Bay music teacher earns national tech teacher award Christine van Reeuwyk Oak Bay News

Piano and technology are a powerful duet in learning, says one Oak Bay musician and instructor.

Linda Gould was named 2015 Tech Teacher of the Year at the recent national conference of the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers held in Richmond.

“She is the best music teacher ever.

She is so wonderful,” said student Galina Coffey-Lewis.

“I just love my music lessons.”

Gould, who teaches from a home studio in Oak Bay, has offered piano lessons her entire life, most of it as a registered teacher.

The national competition is held every two years with the award presented to the Canadian music teacher who demonstrates the most creative use of music technology in the teaching studio.

“It’s a way of us getting together, because teaching piano can be isolated,” Gould said.

“I’ve taught my whole life and used technology. Technology is great if it makes it more fun.”

Gould utilizes digital keyboards, tablets, and computers to demonstrate, teach and record students using a variety of music apps.

“It has to be enhancing you and making you a better musician or don’t do it,” she said. “I started with one little thing … one thing leads to another.”

To apply for the technology award, teachers submitted a three-minute video outlining how he or she uses technology to teach students.

“I’m a techno geek,” Gould said with Christine van Reeuwyk/Oak Bay News a laugh.

“There’s so much with technology, Oak Bay piano teacher Linda Gould was named Tech Teacher of the Year at the recent national conference of the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers you can always learn something.”

For example, she’ll add a little jazz, held in Richmond. using the synthesized sounds, instead of a straight metronome to make a tune “You come for a one-hour lesson and ular adult method “Play Piano Chords sounds more exciting and get a student you hear the first five minutes,” she Today.” into the tune they’re working on.

Besides teaching at her studio in Oak “I can’t bring a band in here every said of recording classes. “You learn faster, you learn more. Bay, classes are taught at the Victoria week,” she said. “They It’s about listening and Conservatory of Music and Taber Music react to it, they smile, “I’m a techno sharing … not notes on School. Gould also performs as a solo it’s fun.” pianist and with her husband and musithe page.”

Technology is also a geek. There’s so much Those can be cal partner, Dave Paulson. handy tool for continu- with technology, you ity, both covering illness Visit playpianochordstoday.com to repeated later, when a using applications such can always learn student has down time learn more. as FaceTime, and con- something.” cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com or a keen interest in tinuing studies through practicing.

– Linda Gould recording devices.

Gould also uses a “It’s not the same bluetooth pedal in peras having them in the formance. It turns the room,” she admitted, page on her digital tabShare it with readers of the Oak Bay but she finds it about 90 per cent as let, providing smooth transition with no News. email: editor@oakbaynews.com. effective, missing only the happy ‘jam rustling of sheet music.

Gould is also the author of the popsession’ portion of a class.

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Leaders Christine Chepyha and Gordon Miller leave the door open for new and returning singers, ages 16 to 29, during the first two weeks starting Monday, Sept. 7.

The Oak Bay-based fun young adult community chorus welcomes new singers for its fall season. The non-auditioned group is open to young adults from all walks of life and across the region. Alongside fabulous music, the group builds a community of friends and offers great performance opportunities in an effort to give back to the community.

Rehearsals happen each Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Oak Bay United Church. There is no cost to singers and the benefits are far-reaching – participants build musical and leadership skills, make new friends and grow in a safe fun environment.

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Perhaps the most surprising thing learned from a session in the treatment room of Victoria Royals head athletic therapist Khore Elliott is how much stock he puts in winning.

“Of course, it’s all about winning,” grins the 35-year-old.

Elliott has been fixing Royals and Salmon Kings since he joined the organization in 2009.

Obviously for Elliott and others of his trade, it’s not truly win at all costs. It’s about getting players back on the ice as soon as possible, and putting them in a position to succeed, he says.

Q The Victoria But a recount of his Royals begin their past two seasons at season with draft Hockey Canada’s U17 camp beginning national tournament Aug. 25. is measured by wins and losses as much as everything else.

This month, Elliott took his talents to the next level, joining Team Canada’s U18 team for the Ivan Hlinka Memorial international tournament, in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Aug. 10 to 15.

“It’s Hockey Canada, the one [entity] that goes against the stereotypical Canadian characteristics.

We’re not there to be polite. We’re there to win, it’s almost ironic.”

Elliott’s one of four Royals slated to work for Hockey Canada this year, as head equipment manager Matt Auerbach will join Dave Lowry, U20 head coach, as an assistant equipment manager at the IIHF World Junior tournament at Christmas.

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Hockey Canada uses the Hlinka as a key step in the Program for Excellence national development model, with this year’s win meaning Canada has won the tournament eight straight times.

The eight-team, round robin tournament is split into two pools, with Canada facing the Czechs, Sweden and Switzerland in three straight days.

But it starts even sooner than that; Elliott arrived in Calgary on July 30 for Hockey Canada’s five-day selection camp ahead of their European departure.

“It’s compressed, there’s no other way to put it,” Elliott said. “It’s a much different experience than the regular [WHL] season. If I can get six hours of sleep at night I’ll be lucky.”

In other words, the challenges at the coming U18 selection camp and subsequent tournament are essentially the same ones he faces every year at the start of Royals training camp, but in fast forward.

When he gets back to Victoria this week, he starts all over again as Royals new and old arrive for draft camp beginning Aug. 25.

“You get a lot of kids who don’t know you, and they don’t trust you, and they don’t understand my role. Some will try to keep things from me, not realizing my job, but eventually we get through to them.”

A veteran athletic therapist once told Elliott, the players don’t care what you know, they just want to know you care.

Being in the national program is more than just providing therapy to players. It means chipping in with the equipment manager to fold towels, fetch water and deal with gear, an all-hands-on-deck situation.

PLEASE SEE: National squad brings connections, Page A15

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It’s even more intense than the Royals’ regular season, when Elliott will usually spend 70 hours at the rink. “It’s a lifestyle choice. There’s a lot of paperwork and administration, such as insurance, or setting up meetings, things that people don’t realize we do.”

At an international tournament such as the Hlinka, Elliott will be at the rink all day.

Because it’s summer, he is able to take a break from monitoring the status of Royals players.

If a Royal has an injury or other concern, they can connect with one of the team’s two Camosun College student practitioners, J.T. Ward, who worked previously with the Victoria Cougars Jr. B team, and Curtis Hawkins, who’s currently with the Victoria HarbourCats.

And Elliott is always a phone call away, just as he was at the U17 tournament which happened during WHL season. In that case, Elliott stayed up until 1 a.m., or later, conferring with the students.

“They’re great, and they can handle a lot, but there’s a lot to it,” Elliott says.

Originally from the Comox Valley, Elliott was one of seven in Camosun’s first graduating class of athletic therapists.

He started as a student practitioner with the Salmon Kings

under Dave Zarn, who is now on the same way you want to be the Vancouver Canucks’ training treated,” he says.

The Hlinka has been Elliott’s staff.

By default, being on Hockey third straight year working for Canada’s staff becomes a net- Hockey Canada as he worked working exercise. He works with on the Team Canada Black the U18 team doctor, coaching staff at the 2014 World Understaff and equipment manager, 17 Hockey Challenge in November, and Team most of whom Pacific at the are from teams in the WHL, “You get a lot of kids World Under-17 Hockey ChalOntario Hockey League and who don’t know you, and lenge in Nova Scotia during Quebec Major they don’t trust you, and the 2013-14 seaJunior Hockey they don’t understand son.

League.

The latMaking those my role. Some will try ter team feaconnections is to keep things from me, tured Royals’ vital. forward Tyler When Joe not realizing my job, Soy, defenceHicketts rup- but eventually we get man Chaz Redtured his tricep dekopp and early into his through to them.”

– Khore Elliott assistant coach all-important Enio Sacilotto.

NHL draft-eli“The thing gible season, Elliott learned about it from a about those tournaments is you can prepare as much as you surprising source.

“I guess someone from the want, but the team will lose by Edmonton Oilers went through a goal. When that happens, it’s a the same injury back in the day, fast exit. The room is silent. And and I was able to talk with Oiler’s within an hour or so, the gear is (veteran) therapist Ken Lowe packed and everyone is headed to the airport. That’s it.” when we visited the Oil Kings.” reporter@saanichnews.com Typically, however, athletic therapists don’t swap player injury stories, and for obvious reasons. But as a home team, they do try to provide as much Share it with readers of the as they can for the visiting Oak Bay News. email: editor@ teams. oakbaynews.com.

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