Oak Bay News, December 30, 2015

Engineer adieu

Longtime Oak Bay staffer Dave Marshall retires Page A3

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Pull out your annual Oak Bay News community calendar, bringing you the events of 2016 Page A2/A15

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Entertaining idea Locally raised entertainers Qristina and Quinn Bachand perform at the Upstairs Lounge Jan. 2 as part of the live music series at Oak Bay Recreation Centre.

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Oak Bay’s active levee Kiwanis ready for breaky at Willows tradition continues Oak Bay again starts the New Year with recreation in lieu of a brandy-sipping levée.

Starting 2016 in good health, residents can join municipal leaders for the New Year’s Day community walk and meet and greet with mayor and council at Oak Bay Rec from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Join council leaving the lobby on a four-kilometre walk at 12:30 p.m. then retire to the Sports View Lounge from

1:30 to 2:30 p.m. for coffee and tea.

Other free activities that day include Jazzercise from noon to 1 p.m.; tennis from 1 to 3:30 p.m.; an everyone welcome skate from 12 to 1:30 p.m.; an adult swim from 12 to 2 p.m. and an everyone welcome swim from 2 to 5 p.m. Finish up with a family movie in the Sports View Lounge at 3:15 p.m. cvanreeuwyk @oakbaynews.com

Annual fundraiser supports the Kiwanis Pavilion for residents with dementia and Alzheimer’s Jennifer Blyth Oak Bay News

Oak Bay Kiwanis welcomes the new year with a series of Sunday breakfasts at the Willows Beach Tea Room.

Proceeds from the fourth annual breakfast series support the Kiwanis Pavilion, a 122-

bed residential care facility serving seniors with complex care needs in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, says Darlene Newburg, one of 47 Oak Bay Kiwanis and chair of the Oak Bay Kiwanis Pavilion Foundation.

The Sunday breakfasts will run Jan. 3 to March 27, from 9 a.m. to noon. For $10, diners can choose from three options: Eggs, ham or bacon, hashbrowns and toast; pancakes with ham or bacon and a fruit cup; and French toast with ham or bacon and a fruit cup. All options come with coffee or tea and orange juice.

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Aug. 1 – BC Day! Check your Oak Bay News for local events and activities Aug. 10 – Oak Bay Village Night Market, visitoakbayvillage.ca Aug. 14 – Classic car buffs delight in the annual Collector Car Festival along Oak Bay Avenue.

Aug. 14 – Bowker Creek Brush-up Art Show & Sale, 11am to 4:30pm, oakbayartists.com Aug. 27 – Pacific Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am, pmdrecycling.com Take in Oak Bay’s beautiful views with a paddle along the waterfront or stroll up Anderson Hill September is almost here...Time for Back to School shopping!

Local hockey and soccer return to Oak Bay’s rinks and turf Sept. 2 – Oak Bay Rotary’s Labour Day flag installation, flag@oakbayrotary.com Sept. 5 – Labour Day – Enjoy the last long-weekend of summer!

Sept. 6 – Back to school for Oak Bay students Early September – Welcome activities at UVic and Camosun College September – Art Gallery of Greater Victoria House Tour, aggv.ca Sept. 14 – Oak Bay Heritage talk, topic TBA, Windsor Park Pavilion, oakbay.ca/our-community/heritage Sept. 14 – Oak Bay Village Night Market, visitoakbayvillage.ca Sept. 24 – Pacific Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am, pmdrecycling.com

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Oak Bay teen collects 500+ presents for children One girl garnered more than 500 gifts over two days for the Salvation Army Stan Hagen Centre for Families so everyone could experience the magic of the holidays.

Oak Bay’s Leah Smith, 14, gathered the toys outside of Pharmasave Dec. 12 and 13 to collect toys for the centre’s toy shop.

Parents who can’t afford presents sign up and are able choose three to five gifts for each child.

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Pedestrian struck by car; no charges laid Oak Bay Police recommended no charges after a pedestrian was hit in the early hours of Dec. 16.

Police were called to the intersection of McNeill Avenue and Hampshire Road At 12:45 a.m.

A vehicle was turning when a pedestrian stepped off the sidewalk and walked into the path of the motor vehicle, police said.

The pedestrian was transported to hospital and underwent surgery for a bone fracture in her leg. No charges are being laid in relation to this incident. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com

Kiwanis breaky Continued from Page A1

“It’s very popular. Sometimes there’s quite a line-up because it’s a very good deal,” Newburg says. “It’s a nice place to have breakfast and a nice view.

We’ve had a really good response to the breakfasts.”

One of the foundation’s roles is to raise funds for programs at the pavilion, located near the Victoria/Saanich border on Cedar Hill Road. Proceeds from the breakfasts will help replace well-worn beds and mattresses, and provide other benefits for the residents that aren’t covered through the health care system. Past initiatives have included purchasing individual iPods for residents that are loaded with music they like and having a Victoria Conservatory musician come in to the lodge.

“It gives them something to do, something to look forward to,” Newburg says. editor@oakbaynews.com

Engineer leaves concrete improvements Dave Marshall retires from Oak Bay to finish 2015

now a similar task requires tie lines, scuba tanks and more.

Where some of those sewers led would shock residents today, with “outfalls sprinkled along Oak Bay,” he says. Those are long gone and work is ongoing for sewage treatment in the region.

That kind of intermunicipal and CRD interaction has also grown over the years, for example, recent bike lane conversations with Saanich (for the Foul Bay/Lansdowne work) and an expected Cadboro Bay Road project in conversation with the City of Victoria.

Despite retirement, he plans to keep an eye on the Uplands sewer separation project, a mainstay during his entire career.

“I am pleased to windup my career knowing that the combined sewer infrastructure in the Uplands will finally be separated,” he said.

“This challenging project has been part of my life for 30 years and I will continue to assist the Uplands Technical Team to see the conclusion of this important infrastruc-

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Thirty-plus years of family videos await Dave Marshall as he embarks on 2016 as a retiree.

The “profound” evolution of technology is the highlight of Oak Bay Director of Engineering’s 33-year (and seven months) career under five mayor and councils.

“I’ve always enjoyed technology. I’ve enjoyed moving along with technology,” he says. “When I started it was all oldschool pen and paper.

When computers came here I embraced that, stayed here until 1 or 2 in the morning figuring them out.”

The district’s first computer, he said, cost $64,000 for the machine and another $64,000 for the software. A 5 mb hard Christine van Reeuwyk/Oak Bay News drive, smaller than the Dave Marshall, director of engineering in Oak Bay, plans to make family thumb drive Marshall now carries around, cost $5,000. a priority in the new year as he embarks on retirement.

Something like surveyincluded hiring Oak Bay staff to do the work. ing that used to be a time“They developed certain skills and we ture project.” consuming, multi-person job has changed Year’s end seems an ideal time to cut the refined them. By 1988 we were able the significantly over the decades.

“It was quite an onerous job just to get launch our own cement-lining program. It’s a ties to work, what with his four kids home huge cost savings,” Marshall said. “We were for the holidays. accurate measurements,” he said.

“My children are at the point where they Now it’s a one-man job with electronic pioneers. … We were the only municipality surveyor that also plugs the information in Canada to use our own forces. It became can squeeze me in on their calendars and directly into a computer – no draftsman a public works tool that served us very well I’d like to take advantage of that,” Marshall said. The retirement plan includes tentative over the decades.” needed.

Also early in the 1980s, staff stemmed the travel plans – to the U.S. to visit family and “I was also involved in Oak Bay’s embarking on a Geographical Information System floods that plagued the community after on holiday – as well as the usual array of projects put off until there’s “more time.” back in 1983. GIS was a new concept at the roots built up in the pipes.

One of those means three decades of kids’ “We would get several hundred flooding time that we discovered while researching electronic laser survey equipment with the complaints,” Marshall said. They started a activities that need to be organized.

“We’ve got 30 years worth of video tapes.

WILD Survey equipment firm out of Swit- decade-long program sending cameras into zerland. As I depart, the GIS is positioned the pipes and recording the problem, fol- I’ve converted much to DVD but I’d like to to make a significant upgrade as it moves lowed by root cutting through the areas cap- get that organized.

With less time chained to a desk, he anticitured on the recordings. under the larger corporate IT umbrella.”

“Now during a heavy rainfall we may get pates more walking and jogging and living in Other innovations include the rejuvenation of underground infrastructure in the 10 reports of flooding,” Marshall said. “In the Oak Bay, where “there’s no shortage of good municipality – a different technology of current program we’re televising all our sew- places to run and walk.”

He’s open to the concept of future consorts. They started on a no-dig path, the ers over five years, in a 10-year maintenance tract work and expects to volunteer in the less disruptive and costly way to work often program.”

The regulatory changes too are astound- community. “Being that I live locally, I want used these days.

In 1983-84 era they had a California con- ing. Where they would once think nothing to make sure I give back to Oak Bay as a tractor come in for a concrete-lining pro- of donning hip waders and clubbing into the whole.” cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com gram for the municipal pipes. That contract trunk sewer to grab some measurements,

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Qristina and Quinn Bachand, with special guests, perform Saturday, Jan. 2 at the Upstairs Lounge at Oak Bay Rec Centre.

Bachand breaks familiar ground

Plan for the post-holidays with tree-chipping services from several Oak Bay origanizations.

Castaway Wanderers Rugby partners with Bartlett Tree Services for Christmas tree chipping Jan. 1 from noon to 4 p.m. and Jan. 2, 3, 9, 10 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Currie Road, next to the Windsor Park rose garden. Chipping is by donation to support youth in mini and junior rugby.

Oak Bay Fire Department, also working with Bartlett, will chip trees in the parking lot at the fire hall, 1703 Monterey Ave., Jan. 2 and 3 from 9

a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tree recycling is bydonation to the Oak Bay Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation that funds local schools and burn survivor programs.

The University of Victoria Vikes cross-country team will accept trees for chipping at UVic’s Centennial Stadium Jan. 2 and 3.

Finally, the BC Lions Society’s 26th annual Chip In for the Kids runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 2 and 3 at the Fort and Foul Bay Save-on-Foods, with volunteers from Davey Tree Experts.

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Quinn and Qristina Bachand start 2016 in front of an intimate hometown audience.

“We are looking forward to performing for our local fans. We have had so much support over the years and it’s always great seeing familiar faces in the audience,” Qristina said. “We have the greatest audiences, they have been very supportive over the years and we are very grateful for that. We just look forward to seeing them and feeling their energy.”

Last summer’s US government computer hack created major delays in processing times for artists’ work visas, putting the kibosh on the duo’s booked 10-day tour with concerts in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont. The costly cancellation means a win for local fans.

They were last in town in June for a CD release tour that included a full-band Victoria concert in a 700-seat venue. “The Upstairs Lounge at Oak Bay Rec is much smaller and therefore the show will be more intimate,” Qristina said. “We’ll be performing as a duo, which is how we started and how we usually perform, although we expect to have a few friends join us.”

Quinn returns to Greater Victoria from juggling studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston and touring for the past year and a half. Qristina has been living in Europe the past three years, first in Amsterdam, before moving to Ireland in September to work on a masters in Irish traditional music at the University of Limerick.

“It would feel weird not to spend Christmas here at home,” Qristina said.

The siblings look forward to performing a mix of material from their three albums, leaning heavily on the most recent, Little Hinges – Jan. 2 at Upstairs Lounge at Oak Bay Rec Centre. “Our first two albums were primarily instrumental music, but our new album features a lot more vocal songs, so we look forward to that,” Qristina said.

The evening starts with a short set by local trio My Boulder House – three string players who are also part of fiddle ensemble Coastline. Then the duo takes the stage for a couple sets featuring all their favourite pieces, such as Crooked Jack, Three Little Babes and What You Do With What You’ve Got. “We’ll also perform our favourite instrumental medleys, lots of Irish jigs and reels, that sort of thing,” Qristina said. “While the songs we sing tend to be a bit ‘dark’, we’ll balance those out with some stomp and clap Celtic fiddle.”

Qristina and Quinn Bachand and guests perform Jan. 2 at 7:30 p.m., Upstairs Lounge at Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee St. Advance tickets $15 ($20 at the door) available at Lyle’s Place, Ivy’s Bookshop and Oak Bay Rec Centre reception and online at beaconridgeproductions.com. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com

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Weigh in on local issues but mind the ‘facts’ We’re fortunate in Oak Bay to live in an engaged community. People care about their neighbourhood and it shows in how they keep their homes and gardens, their time volunteering with local organizations and their involvement in Oak Bay issues.

At the same time, we must remember that a community is composed of many people, of different ideas and perspectives. In many cases, just because a person’s perspective differs from our own, doesn’t in and of itself make it wrong.

We have received several letters and emails, for example, taking issue with council process and direction. Some are fair comment, certainly, and the airing of individual views and ideas is what we want in a democratic society – a community – but some seem to blur fact with perspective.

Some have suggested council is not accessible to the public. Another letter questioned Oak Bay’s adoption of the provisional budget that as it stands calls for a 4.86 per cent property tax increase. (The budget was approved by council, not the mayor as was asserted). If adopted as is, this would indeed follow 2015’s tax increase of 5.1 per cent, which is a significant hit for residents. It was further suggested that these increases stem from council adding management positions when in fact they should follow Nanaimo’s lead and make cuts.

But here’s the thing. Oak Bay (population just over 18,000) and Nanaimo (population 100,000) are very different communities. To compare the two is like the proverbial apple and orange. Given its size, Nanaimo also has layers of bureaucracy at the municipal level that Oak Bay simply doesn’t.

It would seem a greater wonder – especially given many residents’ concerns over issues of development and “monster houses” that Oak Bay previously had no planner.

Should mayor and council strive to mind people’s money carefully, finding efficiencies wherever possible? Absolutely, and we urge residents to involve themselves in the process.

The 2016 provisional budget will be discussed and evaluated in the spring. And as council wades through the budget process, the community will be encouraged to weigh in – just as it can with every other item that comes before council during committee of the whole. Agendas are posted online before the meetings, yet the public by and large does not turn out. Residents are also welcome to share their thoughts with mayor and council via email or letter.

As elected officials, ignoring constituents can come back to haunt them at the polls.

So share your thoughts, weigh in, be engaged, just try not to mistake a point of view as ‘fact.’

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.

Oak Bay News is a member of the National Newsmedia Council, which is an independent organization established to deal with acceptable journalistic practices and ethical behaviour. If you have concerns about editorial content, please contact: editor@oakbaynews.com or 250-4803239. If you are not satisfied with the response and wish to file a formal complaint, visit the web site at mediacouncil.ca or call toll-free 1-844-877-1163 for additional information.

Passages of 2015: Bill Bennett The death of former B.C. premier Bill ers,” its front page declared after 400 Bennett on Dec. 4 prompted the tradi- layoff notices were issued to provincial staff. This propaganda was the public’s tional round of polite tributes.

He was the man from Kelowna who guide and my professional role model.

A bit of background: the B.C. economy remade Vancouver, with SkyTrain, BC Place stadium and Expo 86 to put the city was in the grip of an international recession, hitting resource industries on the world map. He won and government revenues hard. three majority governments Bennett had ousted the Dave before handing over the Barrett NDP government in steering wheel of a smoothly 1975, but the legacy lived on. running Social Credit Party to During its three-year reign, for Bill Vander Zalm. example, education spending Outside B.C., the wire serincreased 13 per cent in the first vice obituaries ran to a few year and 23 per cent in each of paragraphs, defining Bennett the next two. first as the “architect of finanThe blitz of restraint legislacial restraint in the province.”

Tom Fletcher tion reasserted government’s It seems an ordinary B.C. Views authority to control the size notion today, but when Benand wages of provincial staff, nett unleashed his “restraint reinstated the province’s abilprogram” on the B.C. government in 1983, it was presented as a right- ity to pay, eliminated various boards, and increased the provincial sales tax to wing coup on a socialist utopia.

I was in journalism school in Vancou- seven per cent to pay the bills.

Another Bill Bennett legacy was disver when unions organized a general strike and mass street demonstrations mantling the monopoly chokehold of under the banner of Operation Solidarity, big international unions on public heavy appropriated from the struggle against construction.

Growing up in northeastern B.C., I Poland’s communist dictators. Their goal was to bring the recently re-elected had seen the impressive pay for jobs on highway construction, about twice what government to its knees.

The newly tabloid Vancouver Prov- I earned labouring for a non-union conince, itself largely controlled by some tractor doing city work.

A few friends discovered the inside of B.C.’s most militant unions, was a screeching banshee of the big-labour left. track to securing labouring jobs on a pro“Socred hitmen swoop on rights work- vincially-funded highway project. After

joining the union, those in the know could visit a business agent and hand over $500 cash. Within days, the lucky winner would be “name requested” to join the crew, vaulting over those who thought paying dues and working their way up the seniority list would be enough.

This struggle over public construction continues today, with BC Hydro’s decision to make the Site C dam an open shop. The main contract was awarded to a consortium working with the Christian Labour Association of Canada, an alternative union known by more colourful names among old-line building trades.

After graduating from journalism school, I landed my first full-time job as a reporter for the Kelowna Capital News, shortly before Bennett announced his retirement from the premier’s office to finish his term as a backbench MLA. Bennett and I would sometimes arrive for work together, parking our rusty 1976 Chevrolets on Bernard Avenue, where he kept an office above the family furniture store.

I found out later that Bennett’s modest old sedan was the government-issue car he had used during his entire 10 years as premier.

The party bought it for him as a humourous retirement gift, and he continued to drive it to work. No frills. That was Bill Bennett. tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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The Oak Bay High senior boys basketball team defeated Churchill, from Calgary, 93-92 in the final of the annual Gary Taylor Classic just before Christmas.

“It was a fun game for the kids to play in.

The kids enjoyed themselves,” said coach Chris Franklin.

“We went through Belmont and Cowichan – one of our chief rivals on the season. We had quite a few close games in the tournament all-around. It looked like everyone benefitted from this early season competition.”

Friday night the school and fans officially dubbed the large gym at the new school the Gary Taylor Court in front of a full house and with all the pomp

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Left: Longtime Oak Bay basketball coach Gary Taylor with Mayor Nils Jensen at the Oak Bay High gym dedication ceremony.

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Community Calendar Tuesday, Dec. 29 Volkssport – Tuesday evening walk. Meet at Running Room, Broadmead Shopping Centre, 777 Royal Oak Dr. Registration at 5:45 p.m., walk at 6 p.m.

Information: Gail, 250477-4472.

Wednesday, Dec. 30 Volkssport walks – Monday and Wednesday morning walks. Register at 8:45 a.m., walk at 9 a.m. Call Rick at 250-478-7020 or Jan at 250-665-6062 for current schedule.

Thursday, Dec. 31 Roaring 20s-themed New Year’s Eve Party at the Manor – Celebrate the New Year in style with the Oak Bay Beach Hotel, including chef-attended stations, three live bands, dancing, sparkling toast and much more.

The event begins at 8 p.m. and tickets are $160 per person. Info: oakbaybeachhotel. com.

Friday, Jan. 1 Mayor and Council’s Community Walk/Meet & Greet – join mayor

and council for a 4K community walk, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., leaving from the Oak Bay Rec lobby. Meet and greet with refreshments in the Upstairs Lounge, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Info: oakbay.ca Oak Bay Rec New Year’s Activities – everyone welcome skate, 12 to 1:30 p.m.; adult swim, 12 to 2 p.m. Everyone Welcome Swim, 2 to 5 p.m. Info: oakbay.ca

Saturday, Jan. 2 5th Garry Oak Scouts Annual Bottle Drive –

annual fundraiser at 1703 Monterey Ave., next to the Oak Bay Fire Hall. Proceeds go directly to scouting events such as camping and youth development and citizenship building activities. If you have received a leaflet, please leave your refundable beverage containers outside for the morning or drop them by the Scout Hall that day.

Hwy. Register at 9:30 a.m. for a 10 a.m. walk.

Info: Malca at 250-8188496.

Towers, 345 Quebec St. Register at 9:30 a.m., for 10 a.m. walk. Info: Randy, 250-590-7175.

Live Music Series: Qristina & Quinn Bachand – enjoy Celtic folk music from this sibling duo in the Upstairs Lounge. Tickets available at Oak Bay Rec Centre reception or online at beaconridgeproductions.com. $15 ($20 at the door).

Volkssport 5/10 km walk – Meet at West Shore Parks and Recreation, 1767 Island

Sunday, Jan. 3

Downton Abbey Season Premiere – Don your period costumes and enjoy a sparkling welcome followed by a grand threecourse dinner and the simulcast premiere of Downton Abbey Season 6, 6:30 p.m. Tickets $99, incl. professional photos with Downton Abbey backdrop.

Partial proceeds to support David Foster Foundation and KCTS9.

Volkssport 5/10 km walk – Meet at Harbour

People meeting People Dance Club – Live bands plus ballroom, jive and line dances

suitable for all abilities; welcoming, friendly atmosphere and a good dance floor, 7 to 10 p.m. Sunday evenings bi-weekly, at Monterey Centre, 1442 Monterey Ave. Info: 250-896-9000.

Monday, Jan. 4 New Years Tennis Classic Tournament – take in this 36th annual event at the Oak Bay Rec Centre tennis bubble with games played through Jan. 17.

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It was only in the 1970s that Olympic Mountains, but when Phoca vitulina, the harbour seal, they saw free wild seals putting was given protection from the on a show at the Marina their hunting that had devastated pleasure escalated to ecstasy.

The seals’ graceful rolling populations since the 18th cenwater dance is indeed an aestury.

The ancestors of local seals thetic marvel. It’s as if we observhad their skins sold by mer- ers can feel with our eyes the slippery shiny dappled chants to the wealthy coats and the rippling and cold in Europe, musculature behind Russia and the Far the supple turns and East. Since the 1970s dives. the seal population off The big-eyed B.C. has rebounded friendly doggy faces significantly, while look back at ours with it has declined in knowing expectancy, Alaska. The reasons and people laugh out for this are uncertain (although it’s thought Barbara Julian loud when they do their circus trick – the cruise industry is Suburban Wild bobbing and clapping a factor), since it is in their flippers together B.C. that they can still legally be shot -- to protect fish – which turns out not to be a circus trick after all but a sponfarms.

The range of the Eastern taneous gesture of happy wild Pacific subspecies extends from seals. They can also wave forethe Gulf of Alaska to Baja Califor- flippers aggressively, if threatnia, but individuals may remain ened. Males perform displays in one place for life as dictated underwater as well, as part of the mating ritual. by food availability.

It’s amazing what a few thrown Food availability in nature would be tied to tides, weather fish can instigate. The gift shop and climate, but for the resident at Oak Bay Marina obtains herharbour seals it is tied to tourism ring in bulk from Bluewater Bait and the locals who enjoy feeding for people to feed to seals. If the supply runs out, according seals at the Oak Bay Marina.

I once took visitors from a to staff the seals tend to sulk. grimy industrial city in inland They don’t want salmon or crab.

China to the Marina. They had Herring is their natural prey, already marvelled at the Dallas although in the wild they also Road cliffs and our view of the eat a variety of rockfish, perch

and smelts.

Males spend most of their time offshore except when they “haul out” to moult. The females come ashore to give birth. Mothers produce only one pup at a time and it must be ready to swim at birth, or as soon as the next tide rises and falls.

Harbour seals can dive to 500 metres and stay under water for 20 minutes. They live to about age 25 in the wild. They have superb underwater vision and hearing, and also seem to be psychic: as soon as someone walks down the ramp at the marina they float magically upwards, ready for the treats they expect to be thrown.

Coming like all marine species under the jurisdiction of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the suburban harbour seal escapes Oak Bay’s municipal ban on feeding wildlife.

The oily pollution of harbour water can’t be good for them and they are so fat that one fears for the state of their arteries, but no one wants to deny them and their human admirers the pleasure they give and receive in this setting, by making too much of a little matter like wildlife feeding bylaws.

Barbara Julian is an Oak Bay writer and nature enthusiast who writes each month on local wildlife.

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SNOW CLEARING REGULATIONS Oak Bay residents are advised that in the event of a snowfall, the provisions of Oak Bay’s Streets and Traffic Bylaw require the owners, occupiers or lessees of lands or premises abutting any sidewalk in the Municipality, to keep the sidewalks free of snow or ice.

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April – Local baseball gets underway at Carnarvon, Henderson and Fireman’s parks April 1 – Family Fun Gym Time, 5:15pm, Henderson Rec Centre April 1, 8, 22 and 29 – Winter Concert Series, Upstairs Lounge, OB Rec, beaconridgeproductions.com April 2 and 3 – Entertainment featuring the Notables, 6:30pm at Monterey Rec Centre April 16 – Palm Court Light Orchestra presents The Trumpets Shall Sound, University Centre April 16 & 17 – Oak Bay Artists Spring Studio Tour, 12 to 4:30pm, oakbayartists.com April 21 – Rotary Club of Oak Bay’s Paul Harris Fellow Awards Evening, Oak Bay Beach Hotel April 23 – Pacific Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am, pmdrecycling.com UVic Astronomy Open House, 8 to 10pm Wednesdays, astrowww.phys.uvic.ca

UVic Astronomy Open House, 9 to 11pm Wednesdays, astrowww.phys.uvic.ca May 1 to 7 – Emergency Preparedness Week May 3 – Emergency Preparedness Info Session, 7 to 9pm, Windsor Park Pavilion, 250-592-9121 May 6 and 20 – Spring Concert Series, Upstairs Lounge, OB Rec, beaconridgeproductions.com May 8 – Mother’s Day at Recreation Oak Bay, oakbay.ca May 20 – Oak Bay Rotary’s Victoria Day flag installation, flag@oakbayrotary.com May 29 – Oak Bay KOOL Half Marathon, 10K, Relay, oakbayhalf.com May 28 – Pacific Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am, pmdrecycling.com Catch the Premier Baseball League’s Mariners in action at Henderson Park

June Early June – Bayview Island Savings Open, Uplands Golf Course, bpisopen.ca June 3 – Oak Bay High Grad Ceremony, UVic June 4 & 5 – Oak Bay Tea Party at Willows Park June 8 – Oak Bay Village Night Market, visitoakbayvillage.ca June 10 to 12 – Operation Trackshoes at UVic. trackshoes.ca June 11 – Garagellennium, 9am to 1pm, oakbaygaragesale.com June 12 – Father’s Day at Recreation Oak Bay, oakbay.ca June 23 – School’s out for summer!

June 25 – Pacific Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am, pmdrecycling.com June 29 – Oak Bay Rotary’s Canada Day flag installation, flag@oakbayrotary.com

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November

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Catch the Castaway Wanderers rugby action at Windsor Park Oct. 2 – Run for the Cure at UVic, runforthecure.com Oct. 26 to 31 – Pumpkin Art in Oak Bay Village Oct. 10 – Happy Thanksgiving!

Oct. 19 – Oak Bay Heritage talk, topic TBA, Windsor Park Paviilon, oakbay.ca/our-community/heritage Oct. 20 – ShakeOut BC Earthquake Drill, 10:20am: Practice “Drop, cover and hold on,” wherever you are Oct. 22 – Oak Bay Green Committee Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am, pmdrecycling.com Oct. 31 – Trick or Treat in the Village, visitoakbayvillage.ca Oct. 31 – Halloween Bonfire in Fireman’s Park, next to the fire hall UVic Astronomy Open House, 8 to 10pm Wednesdays, October to April, astrowww.phys.uvic.ca

Nov. 6 – Fall back: Daylight Savings Time ends Nov. 11 – Remembrance Day ceremony at the Oak Bay Cenotaph, 10:45am Nov. 12 & 13 – Oak Bay Artists’ Fall Studio Tour, 12 to 4:30pm, oakbayartists.com Nov. 16 – Oak Bay Heritage talk, topic TBA, Windsor Park Paviilon, oakbay.ca/our-community/heritage Late November/early December – Oak Bay Rotary Poinsettia sale. poinsettias@oakbayrotary.com Nov. 26 – Oak Bay Green Committee Pacific Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am, pmdrecycling.com Nov. 27 – Welcome the holiday season with Oak Bay’s annual holiday light-up along the Avenue, visitoakbayvillage.ca December is almost here...time to make your list and check it twice!

Dec. 1 – Celebrate the season with the annual Art on the Avenue Gallery Walk Dec. 3 – Island Equipment Operators’ annual Lighted Truck Parade, ieoa.ca December – Register for the 37th annual New Year’s Classic tennis tournament, Oak Bay Rec Centre, 250-595-7946 Dec. 4 – Annual Oak Bay Merrython Fun Run, Henderson Rec Centre, 250-370-7200 December – Watch for a variety of special holidaythemed activities through Recreation Oak Bay, oakbay.ca Dec. 24 – Oak Bay Green Committee Pacific Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am, pmdrecycling.com Dec. 25 – Merry Christmas Dec. 31 – Farewell 2016, Welcome 2017!

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