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Crews remove a poplar tree from a King George Terrace property last week due to safety concerns after decay discovered.
Decay discovery downs towering poplar Protected tree removal means Oak Bay to get another in return Christine van Reeuwyk Oak Bay News
A private property poplar came down on King George Terrace last week with a bit of fanfare, but before causing any devastation.
“There was a private report done on the tree by a company and there was some significant decay found in one large stem that had the possibility to fail onto the road,” said Chris Hyde-Lay, manager of parks for Oak Bay. He read from the report that in part said the weak stem “could significantly damage as it is weighted toward the overhead utility lines, street and sidewalk.” The fast-growing Lombardi poplar is often planted as wind break. “They live about 100 years an then they start
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to fall apart and this was on that threshold,” said Hyde-Lay. “Because it was a protected tree we (Oak Bay) do get a tree in return.” At about 180 centimes in diameter it was well within the guidelines for a mature protected tree – which must be 60-centimetres in diameter at breast height. At 110 feet, the lift truck that came in to do the work is double anything the district owns Hyde-Lay said. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com
McLoughlin Point and Clover Point are the two potential sites for building two secondary or tertiary sewage treatment plants. At the opening of a lengthy discussion Wednesday among members of the Core Area Liquid Waste Management Committee, chair and Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps told members the province is willing to help the region find a solution and facilitate a way to move forward, but first it needs a plan to help with. With an estimated cost of more than $1 billion for the two plants, Helps noted the McLoughlin Point/Clover Point option isn’t perfect due to the high cost, but it is a step forward. “It’s a leap of faith, but we’re not taking that leap in the dark. We’re taking that leap with the help and hopefully the long-term help of two ministers and their staff,” said Helps. PlEASE SEE: McLouglin and Clover Page A10
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Funding bolsters early earthquake warning plans Christine van Reeuwyk
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n Primary wave (P-wave) sensors detect the first movements from the earth’s crust when an earthquake occurs. These first non-damaging waves are followed by secondary waves (S-waves), which cause the majority of shaking. The ability to quickly detect the P-waves can provide seconds of advance warning before the S-waves arrive. The effectiveness of the detection tool depends on having enough sensors and reliable communication infrastructure to get accurate information out quickly, as well as the distance from the quake’s epicentre to the recipients of the warning. This funding helps provide more P-wave sensors and precise GPS receivers.
Oak Bay Fire Chief Dave Cockle figures “the last place you want to be is in the dentist chair when the earthquake hits.” He was front and centre when the province committed $5-million to Ocean Networks Canada to develop its earthquake early warning system in B.C. that would get someone out of that dreaded chair before a quake. The early warning system would be valuable for Oak Bay and communities across the seismic region, said Cockle, attending the announcement in his role as president of the BC Earthquake Alliance. “What we’re looking at here is an opportunity in the future to provide valuable
seconds which will enable residents to to take appropriate actions to protect life and property,” he said. “As we move forward, what we do here will make people’s lives better here in Oak Bay and in the CRD and in the province.” The program would enhance safety for residents in areas of seismic risk. ONC collects data from offshore and coastal strong motion sensors to link with networks of land based sensors from other agencies, including those owned by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, Natural Resources Canada and the University of British Columbia. “Eventually we will have all of the pieces put together that will help us all,” Cockle said. Oak Bay is already a part of the landbased grid, with a seismometer at the Oak Bay News file photo
Ocean Networks Canada’s earthquake early warning system could give locals valuable time to prepare for an earthquake, says Oak Bay fire chief Dave Cockle, also president of the BC Earthquake Alliance.
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Monterey Avenue fire hall. “We register immediately with UBC and their systems and they’re providing the information back to us,” Cockle said. “We’re still working on the process to get us linked directly.” That next step means, when an earthquake hits nearby, such as the one off Sidney late last year, a warning would light up at the fire hall. “For the firehall here, the future is an automated system,” he said. Current protocol has firefighters opening the doors and pulling vehicles from the hall as a first priority. An automated system could open those doors first. Other warnings could include the phone system lighting up before the quake hits. “Those are the key things that help us,” Cockle said. The funding will add more offshore strong motion sensors and help integrate them with landbased sensors for more robust collection and analysis of seismic activity for early detection and notification tools. ONC plans to install three more P-wave sensors in the Cascadia Basin, Barkley Canyon and Clayoquot Slope regions and five more along the coast of northern Vancouver Island. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com
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Island Health’s Home Health Monitoring service supports patients to self-manage heart health. Close to 300 South and Central Vancouver Island residents have used the free service that helps detect problems early, enhances quality of life, improves health outcomes and reduces hospital admissions. “Home Health Monitoring gives patients the confidence they need to self-manage their health from their own homes,” said Island Health Telehealth Specialist Lisa Saffarek. “It enables us to be more proactive in detecting changes in a patient’s condition. We can work with the patient and the care team to prevent urgent visits to physician offices or the emergency department.” Saffarek said of the patients who have made use of the service, 100 per cent would recommend it to others. The overall satisfaction rate is 98 per cent. “What this program is really about is the connection that is built between the patient and the Home Health Monitoring nurse,” she said. Oak Bay patients interested in the free service can call the local Home Health Monitoring office at 250-388-2273 or discuss with their nurse while in hospital, or their physician or nurse practitioner. reporter@oakbaynews.com
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Unusual visitor offers cause for pause Oak Bay Guesthouse selected for The Red Chair’s Oak Bay stay Christine van Reeuwyk Oak Bay News
The Red Chair, a brightly painted vintage piece, moves from inn to inn, exploring the best of the USA. It’s inaugural trip to Canada, a tour through B.C., saw it spend a few days at the Oak Bay Guesthouse. “It’s like having family come visit, they drag it around to visit everything,” said innkeeper Lori LeCount. The Red Chair’s story started in Cape Cod in 2012 when it stayed at that region’s finest inns. It has grown to become a harbinger of good things for inns across the US. It has become a symbol of good work. “For us it will be a chance to pause and see some of the places we don’t always go,” LeCount said. “It is a bit of a kudo. Not everyone gets to host the chair. It’s affirming, somebody identified us as one of the best.” The Oak Bay Guesthouse was built in 1912 on spec and sold as a private home; after about a dozen years it started hosting guests as Newport Inn. During the war it became a boarding house
for women and children left behind, then a boarding house for seniors. In 1975 it was overhauled to make it look much as it is today, boasting 14 washrooms, 11 guest rooms and a generous owner’s apartment. The Red Chair enjoyed some time looking out at the cherry blossoms from the guesthouse sunroom. LeCount’s other Oak Bay plans for the chair included the spa at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel up the way, Red Art Gallery on the Ave, a pint at the nearby Penny Farthing Pub, Willows Beach and the chairs (Red’s cousins perhaps?) at Kitty Islet. Red came from Birds of a Feather Victoria in Colwood, staying at Oak Bay Guest House from March 9 to March 15, heading afterward to Marketa’s then Dashwood Manor in Victoria before traversing to Ucluelet to finish out the month. Learn more about its quest for great inns, and perhaps a few snapshots from its time in Oak Bay, at redchairtravels.com online. cvanreeuwyk @oakbaynews.com
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Innkeeper Lori LeCount visits with The Red Chair in the Oak Bay Guesthouse sunroom as the chair came to stay last week during its inaugural visit to Canada.
Session expands on earthquake prep lessons Monterey Recreation Centre hosts 90-minute emergency preparedness session Christine van Reeuwyk Oak Bay News
Oak Bay Emergency Preparedness offers another of its ever-evolving info sessions at Monterey Recreation Centre on Thursday. “This is geared toward all citizens of Oak Bay, including business owners,” Eileen Grant, program manager. “The whole purpose is to really talk to people about the importance of being prepared for an emergency. Everybody wants to talk earthquake but there are lots of other emergencies.” Things evolve along the way, as lessons are learned, and so a refresher can be a good idea. Grant herself learned a few lessons during a recent three-hour power outage where
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Volunteers will go over what individuals should have in emergency kits at home, work and in the car. she lives. “I learned some things, I thought I was fully prepared, there were a couple things I didn’t know,” she said. “The more we talk to people the more we visit places, I was in Christchurch last fall … it comes home to you every time
how important it is to be prepared and if you’re prepared you’re that much further ahead in recovering.” Volunteers share how residents, and those who work in the community on a regular basis, can develop a personal preparedness plan, put together an evacuation grab-and-go kit, and a kit to be self-sufficient for a minimum of seven days after a major emergency. “When we first started we said everybody has to come to a reception centre and we’ll register you. We don’t do that anymore. We’re starting to say shelter at home for seven days,” Grant said. “We have four things that we talk about: know the risks, have a plan, have a kit, know your neighbours. That’s the whole premise of our presentation.” The 90-minute session is Thursday, March 17 at 10 a.m. This session is free but preregistration is required by calling 250-370-7300. The next evening event by Oak Bay Emergency Preparedness is scheduled for May 3. cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com
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Weaver’s town hall focuses on seniors and health care MLA Andrew Weaver hosts a town hall on seniors and health care with special guest B.C. Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie on March 29. The evening will include a brief update on Weaver’s work as an MLA in the legislature and around the constituency, followed by a presentation by the seniors advocate. After the presentation, there will
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Increased fire penalties a step in the right direction While recent spring rains may have dampened the memory of the long, dry summer that was 2015, stiffer penalties announced this week by the B.C. government will undoubtedly be welcomed by firefighters around the province and here at home. Not to mention homeowners living in areas vulnerable to wildfire – including here in Oak Bay – and those concerned about the risk to local parks. Provincial Forests Minister Steve Thomson announced Thursday that fines for 19 offences under the Wildfire Act, including interfering with wildfire protection efforts, are being increased to among the highest in Canada. For example, the fine for failing to comply with fire restrictions such as campfire bans will increase to $1,150 from $345. A new penalty of failing to comply with a stop-work order made because of fire risk will carry a maximum penalty of $100,000 and one year in prison. Additional areas still under review include penalties for those who toss lit cigarette’s out of car windows and those who ignore campfire bans. The legislation will also redefine “interference” with firefighters, to include interference that’s not necessarily intentional – boaters who block air tankers from filling with water, for example, or the drone pilot who caused aircraft to land as vineyards, homes and a school around Oliver were threatened by fire. Last summer, the Island’s incredibly dry summer brought an earlier-than-usual campfire ban and hazy, orange-tinged skies from the wildfires burning throughout B.C. It also brought reminders from Oak Bay Fire about the risks the conditions posed to local property where expansive grasslands filled with tinder-dry combustible material stand in proximity to many residential neighbourhoods. Will the measures put an end to human-caused wildfires? No. But they’ll likely help more people stop and think before making a stupid mistake that can have far-reaching ramifications. 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 250-480-3239. 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.
Welcome to B.C., freeloaders has also demonstrated factual flexAs the B.C. government spends milibility as he presides over the creation lions on an international brand campaign with the recycled slogan “Super, of his latest single-room-occupancy drug ghetto in a residential Natural B.C.,” another brand neighbourhood in Victoria. identity has spread across After quietly proposing a Canada. closed-down nursing home This one’s unintentional. called Mount Edwards It hit a new peak last week Court as a temporary soluwith the arrival of two young tion to the filthy “tent city” men from Saskatchewan, that sprang up on provinwho were given one-way cial property last fall, Coletickets to Vancouver and Vicman abruptly announced toria by typically burdened from his Langley office Feb. social services ministry staff 5 that the building had in North Battleford. Tom Fletcher been bought and partly Sorting through the blizB.C. Views renovated for $4 million. It zard of soothing sound bites would house 38 people for and sympathetic TV clips, a up to a year. clearer picture emerges. I asked him if the purchase meant In his initial interview with the the conversion of Mount Edwards into Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Charles Neilpermanent “low-barrier” housing for Curly, at 23 the elder of the two, said he decided to head west when shelter 100 people was a “done deal,” as area residents believe. “They’re wrong,” staff told him his time had run out Coleman indignantly replied, and and he asked for bus tickets to B.C. “When they asked if I had a place to there would be community consultation over the next year. go, I just said, ‘yeah’,” Neil-Curly said. In subsequent comments to report“I was going to the next homeless ers, he said the province doesn’t shelter anyway.” really need city zoning, but will apply Transients and panhandlers aren’t for it anyway. (That won’t be a probthe only ones who say whatever they lem with Victoria’s far-left city council, figure will get them through another which is keen to add a supervised day. Politicians do it too. injection site too.) Admitting she knew little about the On Feb. 24, Coleman was asked if arrivals, Premier Christy Clark sughe is concerned that the 88 housing gested that both were mentally ill and units at two locations would fill up deserve every support the province and other transients would arrive to can give them. take their place. By that time the tent B.C. housing czar Rich Coleman
squat appeared to have about 100 people in residence, with the usual overdoses, violence and prostitution. Coleman assured us it hasn’t happened in Abbotsford or Maple Ridge, where tent camps have finally been cleaned up after shelters and housing were provided. The next day, he was asked if transitional accommodations would be sufficient to end the camp. “They’re not actually all that transitional,” Coleman replied. “We’ll take Mount Edwards through a zoning process. We’ve got about 100 beds there. We’ve bought the building so it’s hardly transitional. We’ve permanently done that.” Fast forward to March 11. The 38 Mount Edwards spaces are full, another 40 rooms and camping spaces at a former youth custody centre are almost full, and the province applies for a court order to clear the Victoria camp. A representative of the advocacy group Together Against Poverty Society goes on local radio to pledge legal support for the campers. How many are there now? At least 100, he says. Meanwhile in Maple Ridge, where the “homeless” problem is all fixed, Coleman has just extended temporary shelter funding and paid $5.5 million for a 61-room motel to fix it some more. Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. tfletcher@blackpress.ca
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Rare plants among our most interesting heritage re: Park plays vital biodiversity role and Heritage protection must extend to nature, Oak Bay News, March 9 right on. rare plants are among our most interesting natural heritage in oak Bay. Many of our urban parks are no ordinary parks. They are living museums replete with natural and cultural heritage, from uplands to the Chinese Cemetery National Historic Site at Harling Point. Thanks to Chris Hyde-Lay and oak Bay Parks for paying attention to this priceless and unusual heritage. oak Bay should do what many other Canadian municipalities have done: declare itself a Heritage District and protect its heritage professionally. This is our brand. Time has come to make it official. Jacques Sirois Oak Bay
Unkempt boulevards and sidewalks unacceptable re: Better care needed for golf course boulevards, Oak Bay News letters, March 9 My husband and i are pleased to see that we are not the only oak Bay residents who are unhappy about the unkempt state of our boulevards. i have written to our mayor several times about the weeds growing from the 1200-block Beach Drive to beyond the Victoria Golf Club and other areas with no action ever taken. Beach Drive is one of Victoria’s most popular walks and drives, and the boulevards and sidewalks should not be so untidy; it’s beauty should be enhanced at every opportunity. Many boulevards and sidewalks in oak Bay are in a similar shoddy state. it saddens me to see how scruffy our municipality has become over the past 10 years. oak Bay’s setting is magnificent and is similar to Carmel
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Peru at about 7,500 ft. in the shadow of three volcanoes. The largest one looms over town at 19,000 ft. If that baby goes all is lost down here. Beautiful setting though.” Firefighters Without Borders Canada is a group of volunteer firefighters, professionals and civilians from all over Canada and the US. The Vancouver-based non-profit offers support to emergency service organizations in countries with a demonstrated need by donating equipment and training. The goal is to provide a
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Reconciliation advocate earns honourary degree Indigenous rights and reconciliation advocate Mavis Gillie received an honorary degree last week from the University of Victoria. Gillie, 88, received the university’s highest honour at a special convocation ceremony March 9. In her younger years, Gillie spent a decade in the Northwest Territories and it was there that the plight of First Nations peoples ignited her lifelong activism for justice and healing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Mavis Gillie communities based on moral and spiritual grounds. After moving to Victoria and during the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry in the 1970s, Gillie was a founding member of Project North (Victoria Chapter), offering assistance and support for the Dene and Inuit in their opposition to the pipeline proposal. Her later work included aiding First Nations in opposing logging in Haida Gwaii and the Stein River Valley, and organizing support for the Nisga’a Treaty.
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This isn’t one of those tests gardening as a process and are about how many hours you working on year-round colour. have to spend in the garden, You’ve got a pair of gardening if you have pets, kids, like to clogs by the back door. The water, entertain, and so on. words ‘trug’ and ‘dibbler’ have Rather than asking what kind passed your lips. of garden you want, I think it’s The Designer: You’re good important to figure out first with form, abstraction, and what kind of gardener you are. spatial relationships. Perhaps I’ll start with a personal you play an instrument, draw, story. I adore potentialities, or have a love of history. You which in gardening terms believe that interior design mean seeds, seedshould be reflected in lings, and growing the garden. Aesthetthings quickly and ics inspire you. You’d intensely. I have a choose to read a cofgreenhouse now to fee table book over a cater to this prediseed catalogue. Your lection, and it was a secret fear: using greenhouse where colour. I first felt at peace The Collector: You at 20, when I was can’t turn an interestChristin Geall ing plant down. If it hired by a herbalist to propagate was the 19th century, Cultivated plants. I puttered you’d have signed on in the silence and to a botanical expebecame enraptured by small dition. You appease yourself things – the miraculous rooting with collecting varieties of one of cuttings, the emergence of genus or add to your stock by true leaves, the beginnings of swapping with friends. No spegrowth. cialist catalogue is safe from I’ve learned that I like rotabrowsing and you are despertion, change, harvests, and I ately trying to say no to coffee live in climate that suits this: I dates at Demitasse because can sow almost every month every time you go you leave of the year. I’m a successionist with fabulous new plants. Your you could say, a bit of a farmer mantra (hoping this incantation at heart. will magically transform you So what kind of gardener are into a designer): Plant in threes, you? For the sake of entertainfives, or sevens. ment if not edification, let me The Brown Thumb: You characterize a few types: spend an inordinate amount of The Cottage Gardener: When time weeding. You under-plant self-sown doesn’t mean you and under-hire, wondering why, actually sowed it yourself, when you buy so many bloody it’s good year. Surprise, abunplants, you still have so many dance, perennials, colour— gaps in your beds. You don’t you can’t get enough (though research as you know you you’ve been meaning to get should, or tend to your soil, more shrubs, right?). You view but when pressed you do care,
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She stressed that the committee isn’t locked into anything. “We’re saying given where we are today, given the information we have, this is the direction that we’re giving you so that we are not giving you nothing. They’ve been waiting for a while.” According to CRD staff, a sewage treatment plant at Clover Point would be constructed underground so it’s out of site from the public, just like the pump station currently there now. It would also be built to last until 2045 since it would be difficult to
expand. Committee members were torn about the proposal, with some agreeing a compromise has been found while others grappled with Clover Point suddenly being thrown into the mix. For director and Victoria Coun. Geoff Young, a single site instead of two still offers many cost advantages. “From the perspective of the taxpayer, we would be better off flipping a coin to determine a single site. This two-headed compromise has a cost of $250 million or so more than a single-site option,” said Young, who still believes McLoughlin is the best site for
a single plant, even though it was rejected by Esquimalt nearly two years ago. Young also believes there’s no way Victoria council will approve a plant at Clover Point, therefore the proposal is doomed to fail. Director Ben Isitt also questioned Clover Point and suggested adding Macaulay Plain into the mix, along with negotiating with the neighbouring Department of National Defence for more land to expand the 0.3-hectare site. “The reasonableness you’re asking, the generosity you’re asking of citizens of Victoria and their council in comparison with
the veto that was given to Esquimalt – it’s frankly ridiculous,” Isitt said. “These are private residential households directly across (from Clover Point) where this committee is contemplating putting in a major plant after Esquimalt turned down a facility that was half a kilometre away from the nearest residential property.” The CRD has until the end of March to submit a detailed plan for wastewater treatment in the region or risk losing $83.4 million in grant funding. The federal government has also committed $170 million in funding. editor@oakbaynews.com
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Friday, March 18 Drop-in Family Storytime – from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Fridays at the Oak Bay branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, 1442 Monterey Ave. No registration required. St. Patrick’s Day Ceilidh with Crikey Mor and Friends – Upstairs Lounge Concert Series continues at Oak Bay Rec Centre. Doors at 6 p.m., show starts at 7:30 p.m. All ages welcome. Tickets from Oak Bay Rec or beaconridgeproductions. com Music In The House: Belle Voci – St. Matthias Anglican Church, 600 Richmond St. features Sara Partridge, Sarah Bachmann Krieger, Marnie SetkaMooney, Kim Greenwood and Jim Hill performing music by Pergolisi, Flemming, Bach, Debussy, 7:30 p.m. Reception follows Tickets $15 adults, $10 seniors (students by donation), available from St. Matthias Church, 250-598-2833. Proceeds to the organ fund.
Saturday, March 19 Volkssport 5/10 km Walk – Meet at Oak Bay Rec Centre, 1975 Bee St. Register at 9:30 a.m. for 10 a.m. walk. Info: Carol, 250-386-6670. Birding in Uplands Park – Join Geoffrey Newell of the Friends of Uplands Park for the Spring Bird Migration. After observing sea and shore birds, head inland into the park to listen to and search for the many song birds in the Garry oak community. Meet at Cattle Point in the large parking lot, 9 a.m. Mobile Shredding Fundraiser – On-site shredding by donation, 9 a.m. to noon at Oak Bay Kiwanis Tea Room, Willows Beach. Earth Hour everyone welcome skate – Skate under basic lighting and participate in energy saving awareness as Recreation Oak Bay joins people across the world to celebrate their commitment to the planet, 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. 17th Annual LOOK Art Show – Opening reception for the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria’s annual art exhibition at The Bay Centre, third level, 2 to 4 p.m. o. The show continues to April 10. All welcome; free admission Inspire, with the Linden Singers and SingYourJoy Young Adult Chorus – Enjoy a challenging repertoire reflecting the wide range of interests and tastes of this combined group of singers. 7:30 p.m. at St. Aidan’s United Church, 3703 St. Aidan’s St. General admission is $15; for those age 29 and younger, admission is “pay what you can” at the door. Tickets available online, at http:// lindensingers.com/concerts-tickets, and at the door.
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p.m. at the Kiwanis Willows Beach Tea Room, $10. Proceeds support Oak Bay Kiwanis Pavilion Care Facility. De Danann – Traditional Irish music, 7:30 p.m. at Farquhar Auditorium, UVic. Info/tickets: University Centre Ticket Centre, 250-721-8480 or tickets.uvic.ca. Variety Cafe – A drop-in, unplugged open mic with a variety of entertainment: music, short poems, trivia, favourite records, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Montery Centre. Entertainers – come prepared to perform. Audience members always welcome. 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. at Monterey Centre, 1442 Monterey Ave. Info: 250-896-9000. Christine van Reeuwyk/Oak Bay News
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over the previous two seasons on the hill. This is due to the great dedication from our skiers and snowboarders, and snow that we could actually dig into and carve.” All team members performed well with multiple skiers who placed in the top three on the Island: Patricia Horwood second, Henrike Heitmann third, Logan Rampton second, and Liam Morgan third. Horwood also credits parent
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Eagles partnership to aid college-bound ballplayers Victoria Eagles Baseball, the highperformance baseball program playing out of Carnarvon and Lambrick parks, partnered with Island’s Triple Play Athletics to help young athletes pursue goals of playing at the college and university level. The two launched their collaboration at the Pacific Institute of Sports Excellence last week, said Martin Winstanley, chair of Eagles Baseball. Triple Play Athletics president Bill Green, a recently retired school principal, has also served in leadership roles at the provincial and national levels and was an instructor at the Camosun College Centre for Sport and Exercise Education. Green’s son Taylor worked his way through the college and university systems to professional ball where he played in the MLB for the Milwaukee Brewers, in addition to playing with the Canadian National Baseball team. The joint Eagles-Triple Play Athletics program is rooted in fundamental life lessons and values, Winstanley said. The goal of the program “is to develop confident, competent student-athletes who value hard work and taking ownership of their futures. Eagles players involved in the college selection and scholarship process will own and appreciate what it took to
Play ball! n The Victoria Eagles are ready to kick off the 2016 baseball season with the third annual spring break tournament March 25 to 27 at Lambrick Park. In addition to the Eagles AAA, Junior Premier and Premier teams, the tourney welcomes the Victoria Mariners Premier and Junior Premier squads, the Nanaimo Pirates, the Calgary Blues and the Parksville Royals. Games run from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. See victoriaeagles. com for more details.
achieve their goals. This learning experience boosts their chances of success in baseball and life.” Green also developed an online Athlete’s Academy (The PACE Academy) that allows studentathletes to take accredited, athlete-focused Ministry of Education courses online to enhance their academic and athletic skills outside the regular classroom. PACE, free to B.C. students, allows Eagles student athletes to stay at their home school and develop fitness and skill programs on their own schedule, Winstanley said. editor@oakbaynews.com
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UVic literary events brings words into focus Malahat Review symposium at UVic March 16 to 20; Celebrate UVic Authors on March 17 Two University of Victoria writing events shine the spotlight on the written word this week. Literature comes alive at the University of Victoria as the Malahat Review hosts its fourth annual WordsThaw Festival March 16 to 20. Guests can mingle with more than 30
poets, novelists, short-story writers, film makers and journalists during the literary quarterly’s four-day symposium, kicking off at Cinecenta on March 16 with a screening of The Trick with the Gun. The film documents magic’s most notorious illusion, the bullet catch, as reinterpreted by the film’s writers Christopher Gudgeon and Scott Hamell. (Purchase tickets through Cinecenta.) On March 17, as part of UVic’s Lansdowne Lecture series, Toronto writer Molly Peacock explore commonalities between the poem’s intuition and the essay’s savoirfaire in Fact, Metaphor, and the Single Voice: Where Creative Nonfiction Meets Poetry.
Admission is free. On March 18, Words on Ice, a gala of poetry, spoken word, fiction and nonfiction will include readings by Green Party leader and MP Elizabeth May, Victoria Coun. Jeremy Loveday, Peacock, M.A.C. Farrant, Kim Trainor, Jordan Abel, Stella Harvey and UVic alumni Laura Trunkey and J.D. Zapf. A full day of creative nonfiction panel discussions follows March 19, with topics including Literary Afterlives, The Investigative Poet and Creative Nonfiction in Canada Today: Fact, Fiction or Scandal? March 17 is the UVic Author Celebration at the UVic Bookstore from 3 to 5 p.m.
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The event celebrates two years of publications by UVic faculty, staff, students, alumni and retirees reflecting a wide array of research, teaching, personal and professional interests. Hosted by UVic Libraries and the UVic Bookstore, the event is moderated by David Leach, chair of UVic’s writing department. Author panelists include Karen Hibbard, Eve Joseph, Frances Backhouse, Troy Wilson and Rob Hancock. Admission is free. For more information about WordsThaw 2016, visit malahatreview.ca/wordsthaw online.
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