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Good energy greets Oak Bay High visitors Oak Bay theatre honours teacher Grassroots initiative comes to fruition with pole unveiling Christine van Reeuwyk Oak Bay News

Filled with traditional First Nation blessings, gifting of blankets and witnesses, the Community Association of Oak Bay’s grassroots initiative to raise a pole at Oak Bay High came to fruition with a ceremony that spread good energy Sunday.

“I’m honoured to be up here today, not only to share this time with my family but to embrace an opportunity for us to work together in the spirit of Sno’uyutth, creating that good energy, those good feelings that help us so we move forward not only as communities but as individuals,” said Bradley Dick, who led the ceremonies at the high school on Nov. 22.

“We have the good fortune of walking in two worlds … In our traditional ways it means in one hand I learn to walk with the respect and teachings of my ancestors and my family. And in this hand I learn to walk with my extended family and our family who have joined us on our traditional territories and to learn and to respect and take responsibility for that relationship as well.”

Drummers led the procession of local dignitaries, including Songhees and Esquimalt chiefs as well as Oak Bay’s mayor.

“Today is indeed a historic day,” said Mayor Nils Jensen. “It’s a moment of great importance to our community because it marks another step in our reconciliation with First Nations. It is another bright light that shines our path to the future, a path we now walk together.

“Our community acknowledges that there were dark times in the past and while we’ve come a long way from those dark days we still have a long way to go.

The pole will serve to light the way and be a constant reminder of the richness of our First Nation heritage, a heritage we all celebrate with this pole.”

The pole, call Sno’uyutth, started as a dream of the CAOB in early 2014. They commissioned well-known Songhees carver Butch Dick to design it, and his son, talented carver Clarence Dick, led the carving over months to transform a cedar log into Sno’uyutth, which translates to “spreading good energy.”

It was officially unveiled during the ceremony, and now resides at Oak Bay High, where School District 61 takes ownership.

PLEASE SEE: Pole a welcome and a reminder, Page A8

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Oak Bay High principal Dave Thomson (left) and Butch Dick, who designed the pole, catch a first official glimpse of Sno’uyutth as the tarp slides away during the official unveiling Sunday.

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Oak Bay High’s new stateof-the-art theatre will officially become the Dave Dunnet Community Theatre to honour the legendary band director.

“He’s a pretty amazing man,” says current Oak Bay High teacher Tina Horwood, a former student of Dunnet’s. “He inspired a whole generation of people, not just in music.”

An Oak Bay High alumnus, Dunnet’s leadership and dedication inspired excellence among band students that led to highly regarded success in concert, festival, sport and parade performances in Canada and 17 other countries. Dunnet, who graduated from Oak Bay High in 1958, is the only individual inducted into the school’s hall of fame for both athletics (as a ‘builder’) and fine arts.

“It was all about kids. The music was good too,” adds Sandy King, another former Dunnet student. Both profess to still hold profound respect for the longtime Oak Bay High educator.

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“It’s an impact that goes beyond the students,” Horwood says.

Dunnet led the school’s band program for 28 years from 1961 to 1992 and he taught more than music, according to both women. Dunnet taught them teamwork, commitment, perseverance, accountability and responsibility.

“I firmly believed … this really was about life and using music as a tool to teach so many other things,” Dunnet says.

Both Horwood and King – a longtime teacher at Mount Doug now retired – use his organization and teaching systems.

King recalls the effect her music teacher had on a day even a duck might call in sick.

A day like this, she says gesturing outside, to a the storm that knocked out power and flooded streets and homes around the region, she would get up and trudge to school.

“I remember getting up in the dark, going to school in the dark at 7:30 in the morning,” she said.

“I turned from a grumpy teenager into a musician.”

It was a combination of the greeting, the warm and bright interior of the music building and a healthy respect for the teacher.

King has vivid memories of fundraising for the program, freezing in the fall weather and

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Q On Friday a second group of six Distinguished Fine Arts Alumni will be inducted into Oak Bay High School’s “Wall of Fame” to recognize and honour their contributions to Oak Bay’s 80-year tradition of excellence in fine arts education. The following outstanding fine arts performers, artists and educators will join the 10 Distinguished Fine Arts Alumni inducted in 2014.

• Amy Brener – visual artist • Brenda Jagdis – performing artist • Sydney Condrashoff – visual artist • Carole Sabiston – teacher, visual artist • Dan Costain – performing artist • Bill West – teacher, visual artist

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“We were dressed in our green blazers and white slacks,” she says. Dunnet recalls one of those “tag days” a limousine stopped and Oak Bay resident and then premier WAC Bennett got out and made a donation.

Dunnet, who started teaching part time at UVic before retiring from Oak Bay, is an emeritus faculty member at the university after a long, respected ten-

ure as lecturer, teacher in residence, clinician and adjudicator.

He finds the theatre bearing his name humbling.

“It’s really a very kind and pleasant thing and I’m grateful for it. Perhaps I’m a representative of the many, many performing arts teachers who have gone through here,” Dunnet said.

The induction ceremony and theatre dedication starts with a reception at 5:30 p.m.

At 6:15 p.m. special guests, alumni, faculty and the public will move to the theatre for the event that includes several performances from current fine arts students as well as an alumni band.

“I haven’t seen those in 24 years,” Dunnet says of the score for two songs he chose to have the alumni band perform – Totem Pole March and Canadian Folk Fantasy.

“One’s Canadian, eh,” he says with a humorous glint in his eye.

“The other is Pacific Northwest.”

Horwood will conduct one song and King the other.

“We have people renting instruments and borrowing instruments,” Horwood said.

Current students will augment the alumni band, bringing generations together.

The Nov. 27 festivities start at 5:30 p.m. for the grand opening of the Dave Dunnet Community Theatre at Oak Bay High School, 2151 Cranmore Rd. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com

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The wall above Dave Dunnet’s head will soon be emblazoned with his name, as the school officially opens the Dave Dunnet Commmunity Theatre at Oak Bay High on Nov. 27, honouring the long-time music instructor and leader alongside a handful of new inductees to the school’s Distinguished Fine Arts Alumni Hall of Fame.

$20 million a year to reduce wait for MRI scans Tom Fletcher Black Press

Waiting up to 36 weeks for an MRI scan is better than in some provinces, but it’s still too long for B.C. patients, and that wait should begin to get shorter by the new year.

Premier Christy Clark and Health Minister Terry Lake announced Wednesday that with economic numbers improving in the province, funds to extend operating hours for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines in hospitals and clinics.

The extra scans should start to show up by the end of the year, and once the

The province aims to reduce wait times for MRI exams with additional funding.

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increase reaches $20 million a year in 2019, there should be 45 per cent more procedures done than the current rate.

Lake said additional evening and weekend operating hours should be in effect in some regions before Christmas.

Where private clinics are available, the health authorities may contract work while they’re recruiting more specialists for hospitals.

Dr. Stuart Silver, acting medical director for medical imaging at Island Health, said MRI is used for conditions including joint aches and pains to heart conditions to brain tumours.

“The information we get can be a game changer in many cases,” Silver said. “We have patients who are booked for surgery who have an MRI, and the MRI suggests that they shouldn’t have surgery.

Conversely we have people where surgery is not considered, and we do the MRI and realize that that is the way to go.”

Lake said he wishes the ministry had acted sooner on what has been a long-standing concern of doctors and health authorities.

“The radiologists have certainly been letting us know about it,” he said. tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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When paving isn’t paving Council defers variance request for rocky landscaping Christine van Reeuwyk Oak Bay News

Four words “or other similar material” in a bylaw kept council occupied during its committee meeting Nov. 16.

In the end, councillors opted to defer rather than deny an application for variance from 25 per cent paved surface front yard adjacent to Willows Park to 88.5 per cent.

“It feels like we’re voting on the wording and not the intent,” said Coun. Kevin Murdoch.

The homeowner replaced grass landscaping with loose rock, which translates in the bylaw to a “paved surface.”

The definition of paved surface in Oak Bay’s bylaw includes “land surfaced by asphalt, macadam, concrete, interlocking bricks, paving stones, gravel or other similar material.”

“It really isn’t a paved surface, you can drive on,” said Coun. Michelle Kirby. “This is why we have variances.”

The problem, pointed out by Mayor Nils Jensen, is the variance would open the door for future owners to pave 88 per cent, despite intent of the current property owner.

Rather than deny, council opted to defer the application to a future committee meeting, with more information on how the bylaw could be altered to reflect the permeable surface as opposed to paving.

Standardizing meeting times and other tidbits of procedure By the end of the year, committee and council meetings will all start at the same time. Council will peruse the options to the procedure bylaw that will see that change and others.

The draft bylaw seen by council, sitting as committee Monday night, includes a shift for council meetings to start at 7 p.m., the same time committee meetings currently start.

It would also shift adjournment a half-hour earlier to 10:30 p.m.

Deadline for submissions from the public would change to 4:30 p.m. on the Wednesday from the current Thursday deadline, to accommodate new internal procedures related to electronic agenda preparation.

It would also allow for electronic participation at closed, or in camera, meetings by council members.

Also in the report to committee, staff noted a coming change in minute-taking.

In keeping with industry standard, the minutes would no longer name a councillor that moves or seconds a motion in a bid to reflect the parliamentary principle that the motion is “owned” by all of council or committee. However, the minutes would continue to individually list any dissenting votes to a motion.

All decisions made during committee meetings are recommendations to council.

The next council meeting is Monday, Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m. at municipal hall. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com

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Oak Bay’s Gen Chandler, second from right, and Charlotte Evans, second from left, with Marci Watson and Pat Andrews, entrepreneurs spearheading a new program at Garth Homer Centre.

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Finding a unique feature to make her hand-knit scarves stand out has been the trickiest part of the process so far for Oak Bay’s Charlotte Evans.

Evans is one of 15 local vendors selling their wares at the Garth Homer Centre Christmas Marketplace, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today (Wednesday, Nov. 25). They’ll be back at it next Wednesday, Dec. 2, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the University of Victoria’s Student Union Building.

Evans calls it a hobby but her infinity scarves, which fasten together at the neck with stylish oversized buttons, or dangle a 19th century skeleton key, are sure to catch on.

“I’m also trying to figure out a collar scarf, and if I can, I’d like to do ponchos and blankets, but they might be pricier than people would realize,” Evans said.

Evans is actually one of the four entrepreneurs (she prefers hobbyist) spearheading a new Garth Homer micro-enterprising initiative with Pat Andrews, Marci Watson and Oak Bay’s Gen Chandler.

“One of the [Garth Homer] clients told me it’s exciting to be known for making something in the community and not for being someone with a disability,” said Garth Homer self-employment coach Wendy Schulz.

Pat Andrews’ business, Woven Rattan Revival, repairs rattan weave furniture, something he’s done since 1988.

It’s a perfect example of the model Schulz hopes that all clients can follow, to whatever extent they want. For Andrews, most of the furniture he repairs is antique, as he’s one of a very few practising the

dying art, he said.

“Business was always good until I took time off to care for an ill friend a few years ago,” said Andrews, who works out of a downtown shop.

“Now it’s a matter of building my business back up.”

At the moment, Andrews sub-contracts to a furniture shop in town and has steady business.

Like Andrews, Chandler has been drawing since she can remember and yet the skilled illustrator hasn’t taken an art class since her days at Oak Bay High. Virtually self-taught, her elaborate illustrations jump off the holiday cards she’s been selling at craft fairs for years.

Her artwork also brings together the book The Lost Puzzle Piece, which she did with author Jenn Ferris, an Oak Bay High education assistant who once worked with Chandler.

But not all of the foursome came up with ideas off the bat.

Marci Watson was encouraged to find a crafting hobby that could produce something to sell. But Watson, who leads a busy life with part-time work, found herself unsure where to look, until she realized it was under her nose.

Watson can spend hours assembling jigsaw puzzles, something that started off as a relaxing hobby.

Now it’s work, technically, as she has learned to bind the finished product to a foam core, perfect for place mats and coasters.

“It’s a good way to use the puzzles, some are quite large, so they can easily make a whole set,” Watson said.

All of the products by Andrews, Chandler, Evans and Watson are available for order by emailing seprojects@garthhomersociety.org or calling 250475-2270. reporter@saanichnews.com

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Grassroots vision comes to fruition with Sno’uyutth A long-standing dream of the community became a reality Sunday, when members of local First Nations communities gathered with residents and local dignitaries at Oak Bay High for the traditional blessing of Sno’uyutth, the welcome pole that now stands outside the school.

The dream that began with the Community Association of Oak Bay in early 2014, quickly took hold, capturing hearts and minds of local residents, business owners, Rotarians, mayor, council and school officials.

Bringing the dream alive, Songhees carver Butch Dick created a design that truly speaks to the nature of the community, a design crafted beautifully in yellow cedar by his son, carver Clarence Dick.

The Oak Bay News is proud to have been a partner in this significant event for the community, prouder still that it came from the people and stands for everyone to enjoy, as its name says, “spreading good energy.”

“I’m honoured to be up here today, not only to share this time with my family but to embrace an opportunity for us to work together in the spirit of Sno’uyutth, creating that good energy, those good feelings that help us so we move forward not only as communities but as individuals,” Bradley Dick told the assembled crowd as he led the ceremony.

Sno’uyutth will indeed stand for decades to come as a symbol of what a community can achieve when we all come together for a common goal.

The energy is indeed good.

What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: editor@oakbaynews.com. 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 province’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.

Lights out for opponents of Site C The fall session of the NDP plan apparently rests B.C. legislature petered out on the assumption that the two days early last week, as $9 billion Site C dam projthe ruling B.C. Liberals and ect on the Peace River can the opposition NDP agreed be stopped by an NDP government after the to turn out the 2017 election. That energy-efficient money would be lights and head for used to build wind home. and solar generaNDP leader John tion, and to install Horgan skipped a sixth and final the last day and water turbine at headed to the B.C. Revelstoke dam.

Institute of TechThe chances nology campus in of Site C being Burnaby. There he Tom Fletcher stopped are announced “PowB.C. Views approaching zero. erBC,” billed as Construction of an the NDP’s “bold, access road started progressive plan for the future of B.C. energy, two months ago, site clearing with a strong focus on jobs.” and work camp construction Reporters asked, how a month before that. Energy many jobs? Horgan said ret- Minister Bill Bennett says rofitting public buildings and the main dam construction homes for energy efficiency contract will be let shortly, would create jobs all around followed by the powerhouse the province, but he can’t contract next year.

Horgan said remaining say how many.

How much does the plan legal challenges could slow cost, and does it include or stop the project.

The West Moberly and subsidizing homeowners to fix their windows and insu- Prophet River First Nations lation? “The costing will be have lost their case against more apparent when we get Site C twice, in the B.C. closer to the election,” Hor- Supreme and Federal Courts, and are appealing. The Doig gan replied.

Whatever the cost, the River and McLeod Lake

Indian Bands dropped their challenges, and McLeod Lake’s construction company has started work on a Site C contract.

West Moberly Chief Roland Willson staged a dramatic protest at the legislature last spring, bringing a cooler of frozen bull trout from a river below the two existing Peace dams, telling media they were too contaminated with mercury to eat.

Flooding land for hydro dams does elevate methylmercury levels in water, but BC Hydro provided me with the latest study that included fish samples collected by West Moberly members. It shows average methylmercury levels remain below federal guidelines for limiting consumption of commercially sold fish.

It’s an odd coincidence that Willson suddenly made this claim, 47 years after the first Peace dam was completed, when he happened to be in court trying to stop Site C. A coalition of U.S. and Canadian environment groups is also demanding that Site C be stopped, using typical arguments to appeal

to their low-information donor base. According to the Sierra Club and others, Site C is not renewable energy because the (largely idle) farmland it floods is a “carbon sink.” Forests do store carbon, albeit temporarily, but farmland where the trees have been cleared? This is gluten-free gobbledegook.

They also trot out the claim that Site C will be used to power liquefied natural gas operations. Most proponents so far have said they will use gas for LNG processing, and if they don’t have hydro available for ancillary power, they will have to burn more gas.

BC Hydro has just finished its latest grid upgrade, a second high-voltage transmission line from Merritt to Coquitlam. It adds disaster reliability to the system that brings power from the Peace and Columbia dams to the Lower Mainland. If you’re arguing that hydroelectricity isn’t renewable power, you’ve already lost.

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LETTERS Lung cancer stigma must be erased Re: Lung cancer deserves recognition too, Oak Bay News, Nov. 18 Thank you very much for printing the letter about lung cancer awareness.

As one who lost a family member to this dreadful type of cancer, I had done some research into the whys and how-comes.

As mentioned in the letter, lung cancer has become stigmatized and for no good reason.

More people die from lung cancer than almost all types combined.

Lung cancer is not a “celebrity cancer” for want of a better term and as such receives less than seven per cent of all research funding. Who decides this is not quite clear but the various cancer societies take in donations and they decide

where the funding will go. Lung cancer is at the bottom of that list.

This is not to say great strides in research have not been made but not nearly as many as other cancers.

The stigma surrounding lung cancer should be erased and hopefully through education it will.

Paula Barnes Oak Bay

Fall leaves bring noisy onslaught Autumn is well and truly here.

Dark days, rain, leaves falling and the annual onslaught of testosterone-filled men carrying noisy cannonlike devices called leaf blowers spending hours chasing that last leaf off their property.

I would rather rake and from experience can do the job as fast as any noisy, smelly

leaf blower.

Did I imagine it or did Oak Bay consider banning these ear splitting devices? I must have imagined it.

Richard Dubois Oak Bay

recycle, but the more complicated it is and harder to do, the less likely they will recycle.

Come on CRD and Oak Bay, keep it simple to keep it green.

YB Douglas Oak Bay

Keep it simple to be green I laughed when I saw the notice on our blue bin. Seems like the CRD, and Oak Bay, are “excited” that they now accept glass bottles and jars in a “separate container.”

What’s so exciting about that? The fact I now have to carry out five containers to the curb - blue blox, blue bin, green bin, grey bin, and now a glass box?

Plus cardboard? I think “excited” must refer to the company doing this and the money they’ll save.

People want to

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Mary-Ann Thomas from Esquimalt and Marilyn Olsen-Page from Tsartlip bless Sno’uyutth during the official launch of the welcome pole Sunday.

Pole a welcome and a reminder Continued from Page A1

A division of

Sno’uyutth

“SPREADING GOOD ENERGY�

“I sincerely thank Butch Dick, a Songhees Nation elder, acclaimed artist and an education activist for his vision for Sno’uyutth, and his son Clarence Dick, a veteran Songhees carver who spent countless hours carving the Sno’uyutth pole,� said Edith Loring-Kuhanga, school board chair. “Sno’uyutth means spreading good energy. Having the Lekwungen people spread good energy to all of our students and staff at Oak Bay High School and the visitors who come to this area is a reminder that this is a traditional territories of Lekwungen people. “The pole will definitely

help promote mutual respect between the students, staff and visitors.�

They CAOB, working with the Rotary Club of Oak Bay, fundraised about $90,000 for the project. “On behalf of the Community of Association of Oak Bay I’d really like to thank you for being involved in this legacy-creating community event today,� said Kris Nichols, president of the CAOB. “So many of you have stepped up to support the project by donating money, by participating in our fundraising events and by providing your expertise.� cvanreeuwyk @oakbaynews.com

Oak Bay’s Parks, Recreation and Culture Commission is close to fruition. Council will see the basic alterations required to add a little arts culture to the community’s recreation mandate after perusing the draft during committee meeting Nov. 16.

Oak Bay Heritage already houses the community’s heritage foundation, commission and archives; the focus of culture will remain artistic for the commission.

While sliding the word “culture� into various sections of the bylaw, it also outlines the areas of culture covered by the commission: visual arts (painting, print-making, drawing, sculpture, crafts, photography, film and video); performing arts (theatre, music and song, literary arts and dance); cultural industries (film production, video and audio-visual broadcasting); festivals and events; and public art.

Aside from its instructional and athletic programming, the parks and rec department provides cultural entertainment such as concerts and special events. The department also oversees film production permits in Oak Bay. The budget already included a culture component this year, with a $42,000 budget that included a parttime staffer for half the year. Next year’s budget of $65,983 will include a part time staffer for the full year, and costs related to the public art program. reporter@oakbaynews.com

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The beauty of the backyard snail Imprisoned by debilitating illness, you make friends where you can, and the up-side of such limitation is that you focus on the small world, the “insignifiThere are about 94 species cant” creatures like snails. of terrestrial snails and slugs in Small and slimy they may British Columbia, and more conbe, but they actually tinue to be discovered. help keep the natural A gastropod belongworld alive by condiing to the phylum Moltioning soil down near lusca, the common the bottom of the garden snail is a haiku food chain. Bailey had of a creature, diminua ring-side view of tive, subtle and good at this from her bed, as hiding. do I in the garden.

The ones in my garThese gastropods den, I have learned, are like damp ground, Barbara Julian European brown snails, where they grind up Suburban Wild and hiding is the safmorsels in tiny raspest thing they can do. ing jaws.

They are descendants They are “detriti-vores,” meanof escargot imported for the cuiing that they consume organic sine industry and are not popuwastes and with the help of soil lar with those who would allow bacteria, make nutrients accessispace for native species only. I ble to roots. The European snail adore them. lays eggs in soil cavities once or Once you get up close to twice a year. I call all snails “her” a European garden snail and because all lay eggs. They are observe the beautiful patterns on her shell, and the gently mov- hermaphrodites, each fertilizing another snail’s eggs during copuing antennae as she responds to minute changes in light and tem- lation – after a two- to twelvehour mating ritual. Probably few perature, you begin to apprecipeople are aware of the fascinatate her refined sensitivity. ing secret lives of these diminuI thought I was the only one tive invertebrates that hide in who felt this way until I read our gardens. Young hatch in The Sound of a Wild Snail Eatabout two weeks and take two ing (Algonquin Books, 2010), Elisabeth Tova Bailey’s delightful or more years to mature and build enough calcium to harden account of a long, slow convatheir shells. lescence from illness, when her During freezing temperatures main companion was a snail in a or drought they withdraw into bedside terrarium.

The snail gets up and goes to bed with very little fuss.

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their shells, where they can remain dormant for weeks or months without eating.

It is those baby snails that I confess to betraying, for I have sacrificed some to that other shelled creature who burrows and hibernates: the tortoise.

My pet tortoise so loved to eat snails and slugs that I had to balance my Buddhistic desire to harm nothing, with the desire to delight Turtullian with nutritious live prey.

The smile of a tortoise is as fetching as the delicate antennae of a snail. Which to value more?

I let fate decide by showing the tortoise where the snails were, nestling under the ferns, and “letting nature take its course.” It also takes its course in the form of the raccoons who frequently find the snails at night and leave their shells in the bird bath after digging out the meat within.

Should anyone try to lay down slug bait however, for these elegant, dignified and useful creatures, I’d react with fury. Nature didn’t evolve 94 examples of a genus because they have no role.

We don’t usually consider the snail to be one of life’s more charismatic creatures, but if you really look at and get to know one, like Bailey did the one who lived and gave birth beside her bed, you can get surprisingly attached.

Barbara Julian is an Oak Bay writer and nature enthusiast.

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“We started making it for ourselves because we couldn’t find a truly hot horseradish. We really craved a prepared horseradish with great flavour and true heat. So we developed the recipe, made some for friends and family and they seemed to agree,” Graham says. “This whole thing started around our dinner table and has grown through the community and beyond. We sponsored ored the Baron of Beef at the Oak Bay Tea Party to seee if it took, and it did. The Oak Bay Night Market was one of the first venues where we offered Hee-Haw for sale. The response continued to fuel our growth.”

The family’s handmade-in-Victoria, all-natural prepared horseradish found an immediate following in Oak Bay. “Customers supported us and also had some great suggestions. They asked for two things: A hotter version which we brought out this summer as our Double Damn Hot and a milder version called Damn Good + Mild that we’re releasing now in time for Christmas.”

“Hee-Haw is handmade in our commercial kitchen with premium natural ingredients including honey, olive oil, apple cider vinegar and the fresh, whole horseradish root that we import from farmers in Illinois – the horseradish growing

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And at $10 $1 $ a jar Hee-Haw is not the lowest priced on the shelflf but it’s also not the cheapest. It is REAL horseshel radish aft er all. And Graham isn’t ready to quit his raa day job helping people buy and sell their homes quite yet, but he’s happy the family team is along for the ride and would like to continue to grow if horseradish lovers still want it.

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Fɪɸɗ PrʝəԪiʝɚ Did you know that Painting by Oak Bay artist Robert Amos of the heritage Mount Saint Angela building in Fairfield, owned by the Isherwood family and leased to Island Health.

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When Oak Bay artist Robert Amos set out to paint the Mount Saint Angela residence in Fairfield a decade or so ago, he had no idea his work would later be a focal point for the building’s 150th anniversary celebrations.

When the owners, the Isherwood family, saw the striking portrait of the red brick building at 923 Burdett Ave. in Fairfield, they were keen to purchase it, and it has hung in the family’s business office ever since, Amos recalled.

In honour of the building’s historic milestone, Amos’s painting was displayed during the anniversary celebrations hosted by the Norwood Group of companies Nov. 19. Alongside his painting were artistic representations of the heritage building by other local artists, including those in an art therapy program through Island Health, which

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“The building is really a remarkable bit of Victorian architecture here in Victoria,” says Amos, who has painted many of the region’s architecturally significant buildings over his career. “It’s sort of Gothic revival in brick and neither of these things is very common in Victoria.”

Mount Saint Angela plays a pivotal role in the Christ Church Cathedral precinct and has served many purposes within the community of Fairfield.

Constructed in 1865, the building was originally an all-girls’ Anglican college named Collegiate School for Young Ladies. The name soon changed to Angela College in recognition of its generous benefactor, Lady Angela Burdett-Coutts of England. After the school closed in 1905, it was reinvented in 1908 as the residential Angela Hotel.

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A three-storey rear extension took place in 1912 to increase the room capacity and create more living space for the hotel.

The hotel was managed by numerous owners over the following years but was eventually sold in 1959 to the Sisters of St. Ann, who converted the Angela Hotel into a retirement home for their order, created space for a chapel and renamed the building Mount Saint Angela. In 1992 it was designated heritage and the sisters won a Hallmark Society Award for their restoration of the building the following year.

In 2006 the Isherwood family – who had sold the building to the sisters in 1959 – bought back Mount Saint Angela and the building is now leased to Island Health and acts as a facility for those with disabilities.

That three such remarkable and distinct organizations have called the building home over the years, in addition to its time as a hotel, is significant, says Amos, who enjoyed seeing the artistic interpretations the art therapy artists took with the building that had captured his own imagination so many years before. While the others had not seen Amos’s painting before they were tasked with their assignment, he was interested to see that several had chosen the same perspective as their inspiration. editor@oakbaynews,com

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The Victoria Concert Orchestra hopes to entice an Oak Bay audience with a little baroque. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Victoria Chamber Orchestra does a baroque concert every couple of years,â&#x20AC;? said Don Kissinger, public relations for VCO. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are performing in Oak Bay and in the daylight hours to try to draw an audience that may not like going out in the evening or trying to park in Victoria.â&#x20AC;?

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Dance the night away at Fiesta Fabulosa Fundraiser helps Oak Bay High students build homes in Mexico Jennifer Blyth Oak Bay News

Put on your dancing shoes and prepare to dance the night away during Fiesta Fabulosa, an adult dance and silent auction at Oak Bay High Friday (Nov. 27).

With music by the wide-ranging cover band The Groove Diggers and more than 80 silent auction items already collected, it promises to be a fun night for all in the school’s brand new gym, says Oak Bay High teacher Brent Garraway.

The dance is a fundraiser for the Oak Bay Live Different program, which will see 34 students travel to the rural community of Vicente Guerrero, Mexico during Spring Break 2016 to build two homes for local families. Throughout the process, they will become fully immersed in the Mexican community, learning not only about the Mexican culture but also about themselves, says Garraway, the Live Different program co-ordinator who has accompanied the students on all three previous trips.

Some 96 students applied to participate in the trip, with 34 selected, along with 12 alternates who undertake the same preparation as the others, from beginning to end, in case a spot becomes available. Some are young enough that they’ll also be able to reapply for the next trip, Garraway notes.

“The first couple (of trips) went so well, word spread and it just went from there,” he says of the program’s popu-

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Oak Bay High’s Live Different participants are fundraising for this spring’s return trip to build two homes in Vicente Guerrero, Mexico. larity despite its significant commitment.

The students, who range in age from Grade 10 to 12 and come from all areas of the school – sports, arts, academics, and those who have yet to find their passion – spend two years working together, preparing for the trip beyond fundraising.

“You want them to feel like a family,” Garraway says.

While the students pay for their own travel and living expenses, they also raise more than $32,000 to pay for the building supplies, along with a variety of other resources they take down for the community, Garraway says.

“Most kids describe it as life-altering, life awakening, life-changing,” he says of the experience, noting that each night they’re away they have a “debriefing” to talk about the day.

“It just opens their eyes.”

Living alongside the families, seeing the impact their efforts can have in a very real sense is significant. “They start from nothing and at the end they have a home,” he says. “They get to see the people move into their new home. It’s a pretty cool thing to see.”

Garraway hopes to see between 300 and 400 people at the dance. After raising about $25,000 at the successful “jail or bail” fundraiser, its hoped the dance will generate the remaining funds needed.

Fiesta Fabulosa runs from 7 to 10 p.m. and includes live music, cash bar and silent auction. Tickets are $15 and include one drink. Tickets must be bought in advance and can be purchased through the Oak Bay High school office. editor@oakbaynews.com

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No peace on earth this season?

Try a little peace of mind Many Greater Victoria snowbirds are making plans right now to exchange the advancing winter for some quality time in the sun.

While many will be heading for Arizona’s desert heat and Mexico’s sunny beaches, a significant number will be seeking Europe’s Mediterranean charms.

Brian Many of those European-bound travellers may be rethinking their plans given the brutal massacre that devastated Paris this month.

However, while cancellation of European travel plans may be an extreme reaction to the attacks, additional travel precautions are not.

One of the best ways to alleviate travel stress is to ensure that your government and your family know every detail of your itinerary.

This brings me to the Registration of Canadians Abroad

(RCA). It’s a free service offered by Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada that “keeps you connected to Canada in case of an emergency abroad, such as an earthquake, civil unrest or an emergency at home.”

Signing up confidentially online takes just a few minKieran utes. Go to: travel. gc.ca/travelling/ registration. You’ll be asked for your emergency contact names and numbers at home as well as details about your travel itinerary, including dates, locations, hotels, travel contacts and travel companions.

The government will notify you if there’s an emergency in your travel region. You can better access consular services and the RCA service is mobile friendly.

The Jihadists who killed more than 120 innocent souls

in Paris are exporting terror around the globe.

You will recall that more than 20,000 British and Russian tourists were stranded for days waiting to be evacuated from Sharm el-Sheikh, the Egyptian Red Sea resort.

That happened on the heels of the bombing of a Russian airliner over the Sinai Peninsula.

That disaster reminds us we must be alert to federal government warnings about travel to high-risk areas.

As well, the continuing refugee migration crisis across Europe and the Middle East is resulting in increased border controls and travel delays in many countries.

When a holiday destination is thrown into panic – whether by terrorists or typhoons – the impact and anxiety is also felt by the traveller’s loved ones at home.

You can remove some of that anxiety by registering with RCA and by maintaining close contact with your loved ones and friends.

Our government’s country travel advisories can be found at travel.gc.ca/advice.

Go to the site, select your destination and view regularly updated information on security, entry and exit requirements, health conditions, local laws and culture, natural disasters and climate and how to find help when you are there. No matter where in the world you intend to travel, make sure you check your destination country’s advisories page when you are planning your trip and again shortly before you leave.

If the country you’ll be visiting becomes subject to a travel advisory, your travel health insurance and your trip cancellation insurance may be affected.

Finally, to reach the government’s Emergency Watch and Response Centre in Ottawa for urgent assistance abroad, go to travel.gc.ca/emergencies.

There may not be much peace on earth but there can still be some peace of mind.

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Tickets, $27 for non members and $23 for members, include transportation, warm refreshment and treat, tax and gratuity. Register by Dec. 3 at the centre 1442 Monterey Ave.

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Bears bring Christmas hopes to Monterey Rec Centre Santas Anonymous trees share wishes from local children

Help deck the halls at Monterey Christmas comes to Monterey Recreation Centre Friday (Nov. 27).

A keen crew of elves is needed to get the centre decorated in the spirit of the season. Chef

Ron will prep goodies for all to enjoy and to fuel the creativity.

Sign up at reception if you can help.

A troupe of volunteers will also be required on Monday, Jan. 4 from noon onwards as Christmas comes to a close. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com

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Bears invade Monterey recreation Friday to spread seasonal magic across the region.

The CFAX Santas Anonymous bear drive, sponsored

by Oak Bay Seniors Activity Association, officially kicks off at the recreation centre with a tree featuring paper bears for seniors to take away and purchase a gift for a child in need.

“We had 50 last year and they went right away,” said Doreen Dupuis, co-ordinator for the project. They sought another 25 that also went out along with scrolls, which solicit donations for the cause.

Santas Anonymous provides families with a hamper that includes food for the holiday season and gifts for children aged 17 and younger.

“The bears have a child’s name on them and what they’d like for Christmas,” Dupuis said.

A Santas bear might include a request for a particular toy or a winter jacket.

The community member who selects that bear can donate the exact item, knowing it will go directly to a specific child in need.

“It’s mostly members that do it, I suppose. People love to donate and these are kids,” Dupuis said.

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Doreen Dupuis, co-ordinator for the CFAX Santas Anonymous tree project this year at Monterey Recreation Centre. can take a scroll and make donation.”

The gifts are supplemented by toy drives, fundraisers and donations ensuring each child is covered, and those who ask for clothing also receive something fun in their hamper.

Donations typically range from $35 to $40 and should always be new, unused and unwrapped.

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Donations can also be brought to the Santas office at 1420 Broad St. Additional trees are at area malls, including Hillside, Uptown, Mayfair and Westshore. Learn more about how to donate, or apply for help, at cfaxsantas.com. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com

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Ask the Expert Seniors’ Edition Q: The holidays can be a stressful time for seniors. Do you have any tips to keep holiday stress to a minimum?

A: There are a number of things seniors can do to reduce stress over the holidays…

1. Be Realistic: Allow extra time to travel and visit with guests. Plan ahead for what you want to do and avoid rushing around. Travelling and meeting with people all day can be both physically and mentally exhausting.

2. Keep expenses in check: Travel, gifts and food can add up during the holidays. Many seniors are on a fixed income so setting a realistic budget is important to reduce financial stress.

3. Keep set schedules: Staying up later or eating later than usual can be difficult and stressful. Keep to your usual schedules for bedtime and meals as much as possible and let those around you know what your routines are so they can accommodate them.

4. Plan appropriate activities: A 5 hour shopping trip or a walk around Butchart Gardens may sound like fun. However, if you are not used to being on your feet for a long period of time, consider a shorter trip or take a walker or arrange for a wheelchair for your comfort.

5. Keep family and friends around: Holiday time can be full of joy and happy memories. It can also be a time to remember those who are no longer with us. Maintain your social interactions with family and friends.

Focus on your current relationships and don’t let yourself be isolated.

6. Look after yourself: If you take medications, continue to take them on time and as prescribed. Be sure to get enough sleep and healthy food. Treat yourself but avoid the temptation to overeat or overindulge in alcoholic beverages. Be good to yourself, reduce stress and enjoy the holidays!

Linda Lord is your local Vancouver Island senior living expert.

If you have any questions, or would like to chat, please contact Linda at Berwick House, (250) 721-4062 or email her at berwickhouse@berwickrc.com

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