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NEWS: Five-way intersection gets safety upgrades /A3 Oak Bay author explores COMMUNITY: Make merry at annual fun run/walk /A11 waste not, want not recipes Page A9 HOLIDAYS: Oak Bay’s guide to holiday entertaining /A19 www.oakbaynews.com
Friday, November 27, 2015
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Flower Power
Chatham District (Oak Bay) Pathfinder-age Girl Guides (from left ) Jessica Connelly, 12, Molly Cheng, 13, Mhina St. Hilaire, 13, and Emma Lesiuk, 13, plant camas along Camas Lane, off Beach Drive. The girls are working toward their Garry oak restoration badge by bringing the native flowers back to an area where they no longer bloom.
Festivities start at 2 pm with annual light-up at 5 pm. Music and merriment fills Oak Bay Avenue well into the evening for the 15th annual Oak Bay Light Up on Sunday. The village will be alive with music, activities and Christmas cheer starting with family activities at 2 p.m. including a bouncy castle, a mini stick hockey rink, street hockey, games, face painting, Oak Bay United Church craft table and Timeless Toys’ games, activities and Christmas crafts. PLEASE SEE: Christmas festival opens, Page A7
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Weaver makes Green leadership bid official Christine van Reeuwyk Oak Bay News
The province needs new leadership, says Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Andrew Weaver, and he plans to lead the charge. The deputy leader of the B.C. Green Party officially declared his candidacy for leadership of the provincial Green Party on Tuesday evening atCOSM_8871_COSM199_OBN_a_X1a.pdf the University Club of Victoria.
“I think British Columbia needs a new direction … we have lived for too long through this dichotomy of left versus right,” he said prior to the event. “In my view there’s nothing new or particularly democratic about the NDP or liberal about the Liberals … I think it’s time for us to create a third viable option.” In order to compete in every 1 2015-11-13 riding come the 4:16 2017PMelection, the party needs three things, people,
funding and policy, he says. “We have to attract quality candidates, we need money … so we can compete with these others and we need policy,” he said. “We’re well on the way to policy, we’ve got a lot of people.” He also shared his idea of what a cutting-edge, 21st century economy would look like in the province, including not relying solely on liquid natural gas, but rather developing an innovative, resilient,
diverse, and sustainable economy. “Natural gas has not been nor will it be anytime in the near future a solution … the price of gas is too low, the market is too saturated,” he said. “We are the most beautiful place in the world to live. That allows us to attract business in highly mobile sectors. We can offer quality of life.” PLEASE SEE: Leadership bid, Page A3
Did you know? n A mathematician specializing in climate models, Weaver took political leave from the faculty of the University of Victoria to run in the 2013 election where he defeated former B.C. Liberal cabinet minister Ida Chong.
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