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For Oak Bay council 2012 was clearly the year of the volunteer.
Every step of council’s work was supported by volunteers who answered our call to become engaged in
the business of leading our community. Here is a snapshot of their involvement.
Council’s first initiative was to enlist five volunteer residents to assist councillor Cairine Green in mapping a plan to make our municipal business more open and accessible and get more residents engaged.
Their recommendations culminated in our first neighbourhood meeting, a new website and a public participation period at all council meetings.
Residents came forward to volunteer for two new citizen advisory committees on Active Transportation and the Environment. That resulted in a new transportation policy that will promote walking, cycling and public transportation.
In 2013 council will be looking to improve Oak Bay’s walking and biking infrastructure.
With the assistance of volunteers on the Parks and Recreation Commission, renovations to the Henderson Recreation Centre were approved. Work is expected to be completed in the Spring. Councillor Tara Ney, our representative on the commission, began a process to develop an Urban Forest Strategy.
Volunteers helped secure three-quarters of a million dollars to restore Bowker Creek behind Oak Bay High.
Volunteers also gave us ideas on making Oak Bay more dog friendly.
Heritage volunteers began work on a strategic plan to make heritage decisions more proactive.
Council is grateful for the work of our volunteers. We thank you.Council’s agenda in 2012 was full. Here are a few highlights.In November we launched a new exciting, interactive and leading-
edge municipal website.Councillors Kevin Murdoch and Michelle Kirby, with the help of
consultants, created innovative features for the site. For example, it’s fully mobile and adjusts to whatever device you use – smart phone, tablet, or desk top. It’s very user friendly and lots of fun. Visit it at oakbay.ca.
In 2013, we will take another technological step forward by making use of the large monitor recently installed in council chambers.
In 2012, council started a process to renew the Official Community Plan (OCP) that has not had a major overhaul in more than 20 years. Councillor Pam Copley will continue to guide the OCP committee in 2013. The new OCP will create our community’s vision for the future. I encourage everyone to get involved. There will be many opportunities to give us your views.
In November a flood on Bowker Avenue had a devastating impact on several families on the street. A report will review what happened and make recommendations. Councillor John Herbert, as council liaison to our emergency program, will take the lead on overseeing any changes.
One challenge on the horizon will be the future of the Oak Bay Lodge.
I hope we can create a partnership with Vancouver Island Health Authority to explore the future of the lodge in a collaborative relationship similar to the one we have forged with School District 61 to rebuild Oak Bay High, which includes community resources and space.
Council will continue work on issues we started in 2012 and look forward to taking on new challenges and initiatives in 2013.
On behalf of council I wish everyone a happy and healthy new year.
Nils JensenOak Bay Mayor
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We were sharing news stories, shopping tips, photos and plenty of laughs on Facebook in 2012
Here’s the first five in a list of our top 10 most read, shared and commented on Facebook postings of the year. Get connected with us at Facebook.com/oakbaynews. See more on page A9.
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Enjoying their outdoor classroom Western Academy of Photography students Ben Gawletz, left, and Chas Holzworth took advantage of the Thursday morning sun rising through clouds above Willows Beach to create images for a sunrise photography assignment for class.
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Guess we should be happy that they've learned to look before they cross the road. A mother deer and fawn check for traffic on Cadboro Bay Road.
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27/6/2012The sun is shining and there's a tentative agreement between teachers and the province ... what a day so far.
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20/11/2012Residents in the 2200-block of Bowker Ave. have been asked to evacuate after a watermain break has flooded several homes in the area. The Oak Bay Fire Department has set up an emergency centre at the Oak Bay Rec Centre.
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AA LOOKLOOK BACKBACK AT AT 2012
February marked the beginning of Building a better watershed, a watershed management plan for Bowker Creek. A 100-year plan for the watershed will shape future development and conservation efforts in and around Bowker Creek.
The redevelopment of Oak Bay High, which borders the creek, will also take the watershed into consideration,
Non-lethal solution to deer prob-lem were sought in February.
The CRD board was in the hot seat with demands that it do something about the burgeon-ing deer population. Ten months later, the deer are still here, and the CRD continues to struggle for
a solution.Cambridge Antiques owner
Peter Everett and resident Crystal Stupple teamed up as Oak Bay’s newest Crime stoppers.
Stupple was accompanying her mother to a bank in Oak Bay Village when the pair noticed a commo-tion in the front window of Cam-bridge Antiques. Inside, Everett was wrestling with a man who was trying to rob him.
The 40-year-old suspect had entered the store a minute or two earlier, wearing a hard hat and dust mask, and approached Ever-ett at the rear counter. He raised a bag containing what appeared to be a gun and threw a second bag down, demanding that Everett fill
it with jewelry.Everett refused to comply with
his demands and fought back. That’s when Stupple spotted the scuffle and together the pair wrestled the thief to the ground and pinned him there until police arrived.
Teacher’s strike looms, read the headline as the beginning of job actions that would plague B.C. for months were seen.
The unrest heated up with a province-wide day of action March 2, and preceded a strike vote.
In early March the headline New Lodge consultation plan rejected ran on our front page.
The writing was on the wall for Oak Bay Lodge, but no one
seemed to be able to stop the inevitable as a preliminary con-sultants’ report designed to lead Oak Bay through the consultation and planning phases was deemed “not good enough” by council.
A revised timeline including more community participation was requested.
Trudeau’s message: Don’t vote in your underwear. Dressed in blue jeans and scuffed boots, Justin Trudeau was in town to talk to young voters at the University of Victoria. Still denying leadership aspirations, Trudeau implored young people to vote and make a difference.
Oak Bay High students were Comfortable in their own skin taking on the Tan-free grad chal-lenge. The teens led a move-ment that would ultimately result in regulations that prohibit
under-age tanning.Tai Orser, his brothers
and cousins were featured in Teens find suspicious device on beach after they discovered a suspicious object at Loon Bay on March 24.
Once police had a look at the device, described as a cell phone strapped to a battery charger with wires coming out of it, they cordoned off the beach and diverted traffic for several hours.
Members from the RCMP explosives disposal and technology section attended the scene to disable the device which was determined to be a hoax.
An 18-year-old Victoria man was arrested and went through the Oak Bay restorative justice system and the case was success-fully concluded in September.
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Look for service to improve was the headline as Oak Bay Police Chief Const. Mark Fisher started the year on our front page.
Twelve months later, the Oak Bay Police have made changes including a new web presence and Twitter profile and are developing a strategic plan for the future.
A story about Volunteer members of the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue, station 33, Oak Bay, based at Oak Bay Marina, on Jan. 13 titled Res-cue crews prepare for worst showed how the crews are well-prepared for situations such as the tragedy they encountered in the summer of 2012 when one man died and another was successfully res-cued on their watch.
The loss of Oak Bay Lodge wasn’t yet a consideration on Jan. 18 as VIHA playing a wait-ing game ran. The Vancouver Island Health Authority was touting confidence in a solu-tion to renovating the care home.
By late January, the Value of Oak Bay heritage questioned the value residents hold in Oak Bay’s homes and other local history.
Early in the year, council tried to protect a home on Vic-toria Avenue from demolition.
Facing $1.1 million in costs to the district, it rescinded a protection order placed on the property. Eleven months later the municipality is formulating a heritage plan.
Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Cambridge Antiques owner Peter Everett and Crystal Stupple re-enact how they worked together to tackle the would-be thief at the Oak Bay Avenue store.
Erin McCracken/News staff
Oak Bay police Chief Const. Mark Fisher is a certified police bicycle trainer who hatched a plan to get more officers on bikes.
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AA LOOKLOOK BACKBACK AT AT 2012
The story Hero holiday leads to appreciation of home about stu-dents donating time and money to build homes in the rural agricul-tural town of Vicente Guerrero, Mexico, was the latest installment of how Oak Bay youth are philan-thropic to the extreme. The group of students, ranging from the age of 15 to 18, spent their spring break helping others and learning to appreciate conveniences such as electricity and running water.
By mid-April the Oak Bay Beach Hotel delay sends guests to Empress as the Miracle weekend plans were derailed by construc-tion at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel.
The delayed opening of the hotel forced a change in venue for the 25th anniversary of the David Foster Foundation’s Miracle Weekend. The grand opening was planned for May 25 but it took another six months for the doors to officially open.
Instead of presiding from their usual chairs on the raised dais at the north end of the chamber room, Oak Bay council is now Min-gling with the people at a board-room table for committee meet-ings. Mayor Nils Jensen says the change has been “wildly success-ful.”
Rick Hansen honours Oak Bay High difference maker Liam McDonough. McDonough was one of about 1,000 Oak Bay High and Monterey middle school students who gathered to hear Rick Han-sen’s inspirational story of mak-ing a difference by finding strength through adversity.
The Grade 12 student was stunned when he was called from the crowd to receive a Difference Maker medal from Hansen, a moment that earned the 18-year-old a standing ovation.
WorkSafeBC says the University of Victoria failed to protect the health and safety of employees working in the Sedgewick Build-ing, after mould and high levels of carbon dioxide were found inside.
UVic told to address health prob-lems linked to building broke the story to the public.
Protest pops up in Oak Bay in
early May. Boxy, “characterless” homes were under fire as dozens of residents took their distaste for oversized newer homes to the streets. The protest helped spur conversation at council and ulti-mately to a review of the floor area ratio.
A week later, Residents upset with mayor’s tolerance message as Mayor Nils Jensen suggested they show a little tolerance for new-comers to Oak Bay.
It was a party to remember as the Oak Bay tea party celebrates 50 years with a bash that included a tea cup race that pitted new Mayor Nils Jensen and former mayor Christopher Causton against one another. The two bobbed in the drink, spooned water at one another and Jensen ended up with a spill to end the race.
Oak Bay was introduced to Band of brothers Endurance, a rock band with a difference that would go on to wow the dragons on CBC’s Dragon’s Den in the fall. The philanthropical band, which hopes to help others, sealed a deal for a commitment of $100,000 in exchange for a 50 per cent share of their record label when it’s estab-lished.
Large homes on small lots wor-ries resident’s group read the head-line as Mayor Nils Jensen’s strug-gled with residents intent on con-trolling development in Oak Bay. Things got a little tougher with the formation of Oak Bay Watch, a citi-zens group intent on setting policy at city hall.
The group requested that bylaws be changed so that the floor area
limit for small lots would be 40 per cent, as it was before the 2007 change.
The Royal Victoria Yacht Club opened its doors with High seas hijinks on the menu at Yacht Club in an ongoing effort to make it more appealing for families. It went on to sponsor sailing school for Greater Victoria students and a variety of other activities during the year.
The axe finally fell on the future of Oak Bay Lodge when variances needed to replace it were denied. It was a move that came in the wake of protests about the chang-ing character of the community, and led some to question the entire planning process. It also left VIHA prepared to close Oak Bay Lodge.
Search at sea followed the story of two young men who were the subject of a search by Royal Cana-dian Marine Search and Rescue, station 33, Oak Bay after a canoe capsized in the evening hours of July 6 near Ten Mile Point.
It was a camping venture that turned terribly tragic, leaving one man dead. The other was found clinging to Tod Rock near Mary Tod Island at 12:25 a.m. He
was plucked from the rocks with hypothermia, but later released in good health from Royal Jubilee Hospital.
Lawsuits claim Cadboro Bay as Esquimalt and Songhees First Nations filed two sepa-rate civil lawsuits against B.C. and Canada, both which seek compensation for the loss of aboriginal village land at Cad-boro Bay, which the bands argue is protected forever under one of six Douglas trea-ties.
Our first coverage of the year on the sewage treat-
ment plan told residents Property tax will rise to fund regional sew-age upgrades. The story would captivate the public’s attention in the months to come as questions were raised surrounding the envi-ronmental need for the project.
One a lonely number for wolf pack told the story of a lonely lupine seen on Discovery Island, July 18. She would continue to captivate the imagination of resi-dents for months.
More than a dozen home grown athletes were in London to repre-sent Canada at the Summer Olym-pics in London, England as the Games kickoff. Parents of past and current Olympians talked about the emotional ups and downs of watching their children compete.
Songhees tighten control of Dis-covery Island read the headline as the First Nation exerted its owner-ship of the land in order to better protect it.
The News followed the announcement with a three-part series that looked at why and how the Songhees is protecting its sov-ereignty, along with protecting
and restoring the islands’ sensi-tive ecosystem.
It was a shot across the bow of CRD directors when staff pre-sented a report that said Directors face fines for stalling sewage treat-ment if they hindered progress on the upcoming secondary sew-age treatment project. Directors could face steep fines – even jail time – under new federal regula-tions.
Oak Bay High’s replacement was in the news again as Greater Victoria School District moved to apply for zoning variances before a building design was created.
The Unique building process applied to Oak Bay High project allows the builder to come for-ward with ideas that are leading edge and innovative, and environ-mentally sustainable.
Oak Bay was On fire as Fire ants invaded in August and Oak Bay News was there with advice on dealing with the little pests.
In late August Victoria MP, Denise Savoie, announced her res-ignation putting her seat Up for grabs. The resulting by-election held in November would see the NDP return to the seat after a close contest with the Green Party.
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Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen, left, and former Oak Bay mayor Christopher Causton during the annual mayoral challenge Teacup Race at the Oak Bay Tea Party on Willows Beach. Causton won the race after Jensen lost his balance and tipped over and was rescued by Oak Bay Sea Rescue.
Black Press file
Oak Bay-based rock band Endurance made a name for itself in 2012.
Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft Siyay from Richmond and a helicopter search the shores of small islands off Oak Bay looking for a missing canoeist in July.
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EDITORIALPenny Sakamoto Group PublisherKevin Laird Editorial DirectorLaura Lavin EditorOliver Sommer Advertising Director
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2009 WINNER
It’s the season of giving, while recognizing and appreciating what and who we have in our lives.
Most of us are fortunate. While we may not have everything, we do have enough.
Every community seems to have an ever upward spiralling need for help for its most vulnerable residents. The need is often greater than the ability to supply even the most basic necessities.
And it is getting worse.During the holiday
season there are so many charities seeking donations that many are not getting what they need to run their programs. Most people could probably name at least five charities or volunteer organizations that are looking for food donations, clothing, money or toys.
Every community has a food bank, which in itself is a travesty. This holiday season it would be amazing to see every food bank have enough to feed those who need extra help.
It’s not just during Christmas though, it’s a year-long need and the shelves are often pretty bare. These charitable organizations all function on a shoestring budget.
They rely on volunteers, and in small places such as Sooke people give back to the community every single day.
All people need access to the basics, like food and shelter.
No one should be sleeping under a bridge or in the woods, or couch surfing, for that matter. And they shouldn’t have to feel like beggars if they’re forced to stand in a soup line.
If the various levels of government can pay staff and management huge salaries, there should be some way to raise basic income assistance to the
needy. By needy I mean children, single parents, seniors and the disabled.
The gap between the haves and the have-nots is widening. Feelings of goodwill and generosity shouldn’t be limited to just those times when we feel a tinge of guilt for being so good to ourselves and our families.
While we are at it, remember to shop locally if possible. This supports those who live, work and pay taxes in our communities and the money they make stays there.
People in small towns know who their poor are. They interact
with them on a daily basis. They see the disadvantaged collecting bottles and cans, which is actually a valuable public service.
They are working in their own way and have pride because they aren’t panhandling.
People in places with a sense of community look out for their neighbours and check on them if they haven’t been seen or heard from in a while.
These same people are often the ones who donate anonymously and generously.
They don’t look for the photo op with the giant cheque and they shy away from recognition. There are no administrative “costs” and all the money they give stays in their own community to aid those who live there.
These people are giving from the heart and often it is those who can least afford it who give the most. Because they know, without good fortune, that the person they are helping could be themselves.
There is no shame in being poor, but there can be shame in being rich.
“Let him who neglects to raise the fallen, fear lest, when he falls, no one will stretch out his hand to lift him up.” – Saadi
Pirjo Raits is editor of the Sooke News Mirror.
Charity comes from the heart
‘The gap between the haves and the have-nots is widening.’
Some solutions take a while
Pirjo RaitsHard Pressed
The public always wants disputes that affect them to be settled quickly, but in 2012, certain issues seemed to move at glacial speed.
The teachers’ strike, a holdover from 2011, continued to dominate the news in the early part of the year, with job action escalating in the spring. The drawn-out dispute ended with a contract signed late in the school year.
Post-secondary support workers fought their own contract battles for much of the year, forcing the cancellation of some classes, and some sectors are still seeking agreements.
A mid-September a strike vote by B.C. Transit workers quickly translated into job action, including run cancellations and an overtime ban for drivers. If negotiations continue to move as slowly as the commute from West Shore to downtown, this dispute won’t be settled anytime soon.
The sewage treatment discussion eased forward, with funding from upper levels of government confirmed and the potential impact on taxpayers revealed. Rather than demonstrating progress, for some residents it reawakened the debate over the environmental need for sewage treatment and worries over potential cost overruns.
The Capital Regional District’s sewage committee laid the groundwork recently for the establishment of an oversight committee to keep things on schedule, but getting shovels in the ground is still a year away.
Environmental damage to the Colquitz River, caused by a home heating oil spill in late 2011, was thought to be an isolated event. But 2012 saw several more spills wreak environmental havoc. It could be a longtime before the extent of the problem is known, given the number of old oil tanks in use around the region.
And of course, no discussion of 2012 can leave out deer, which feasted on flowers and frazzled local farmers. While a CRD initiative to find a satisfactory solution produced a report with suggestions, it concluded that the region’s 13 municipalities must find their own solutions to the problem.
If the past year is any indication, we can expect some of the aforementioned scenarios to outlast the painfully long NHL lockout.
OAK BAY NEWS - Friday, December 28, 2012 www.oakbaynews.com • A7
LETTERS
As one of the many programmers who worked to avert the Y2K problem it is disappointing to read another inaccurate description of the problem and a skepticism that it even existed.
It was not because of “computers’ supposed inability to read a year with two zeros at the end” but that in the year 2000 the two-digit year format would result in invalid dates or cause mathematical calculations to fail.
And because “nary a blip was seen on
the landscape” the writer implies that the whole problem was a myth comparable to a 5,100-year-old prediction based on Mayan mythology.
Yes, some people overreacted 12 years ago, but the potential for information anomalies and system outages was real and, had problems not been addressed, the impact would have been considerable.
Early computer programs used two digits instead of four to represent the year because of space constraints: punched
cards used for input were limited to 80 character, computer memory was scarce and storage was expensive. And, because programs were only expected to be in use for a few years, they did not take into account the change of millennia.
Obviously programs would fail or produce inaccurate results when the year changed from (19)99 to (20)00 if they had been coded to prefix the two-digit year with 19, expect it to be part of an ascending sequence, or attempt to divide it
by four to test for a leap year.These are just a few simple examples of
the kinds of problems that existed. A major challenge was to identify which programs contained any kind of problematic coding.
The article was concerned that beliefs should not be confused with reality. We also need to make sure that real facts and events are not distorted by inaccurate statements and erroneous implications.
Andrea GagnonEsquimalt
Editorial missed the mark on Year 2000 challenges
Ogden Point breakwater, Teen tanning ban, Cuts to CIDAReaders respond:
Not a good idea. By the looks of it, there will be less elbow room.
I walk it a fair amount and find it very safe as is. With the addition of motorized scooters, on top of the dogs and runners all in a narrow space, this looks like an accident waiting to happen.
I hope the harbour authority has good liability insurance, they will need it shortly.
David Churchill Victoria
Breakwater defined: “A barrier built out into the sea to protect the coast or harbour from the force of waves.” Leave it alone please. It was not built to protect the people. We are grateful to be able to walk on it knowing so. That is what makes it so great.
Linda Monette Victoria
It is reassuring to see the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority’s concern for public safety being demonstrated by their intention to put guard rails along the Ogden Point breakwater.
Can the GVHA say when they plan on installing electrical shore power connections for cruise ships, so that James Bay residents’ respiratory health will no longer be threatened by particulate matter, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides and ammonia emissions?
Trevor Morley Victoria
I am so very pleased that at last the Ogden Point walkway is getting a safety upgrade.
I have lived in Victoria since 1991 and have not been able to enjoy this scenic walkway due to vertigo. I look forward to enjoying a leisurely walk on the breakwater free of anxiety.
Valerie PetersVictoria
This just seems like a “make work-spend money” project. Victoria already has so many accessible walks for wheelchairs and scooters that I simply don’t understand the issue here.
At 70 years of age, I’m still able to walk along the breakwater, but once I’m not able, I’ll just delete the breakwater from my walk options.
Why add a railing and spoil the excitement for those wanting the adrenalin of wind and waves?
Why spend money on this when there are far more pressing areas of need?
Barbara McDonellVictoria
Teen tanning bed bannot on federal radar
Our federal politicians really should stop bickering long enough to protect children’s rights.
Private member’s bill C-386, “An Act to amend the Radiation Emitting Devices Act (tanning equipment) and to warn Canadians of the cancer risks of using tanning equipment,” was tabled 12 long months ago by a Conservative member of parliament.
But it appears this bill, aimed at prohibiting all Canadian youth under 18 years of age from purchasing a service known to be a Class 1 physical carcinogen,
is not on our government’s agenda, nor that of the opposition parties.
When did we become so callous and self-centred that we can’t even be bothered to listen to our doctors and protect children from cancer when we know how?
Linda JeaurondView Royal
Canada turns its backon the world’s poor
The year 2012 is shaping up to be a dark one for Canada’s reputation as a helping, compassionate citizen on the world stage.
The Canadian International Development Agency is facing draconian budget cuts, 41 per cent of which will affect assistance directed to the world’s poorest countries. Additionally, according to International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino, CIDA aid will now be linked to projects benefiting the Canadian mining industry.
And in a final, egregious attack on the world’s poor, the Conservative government recently blocked Bill 398, which would have allowed cheap generic life-saving medicine to save millions of people in the developing world, at no cost to Canada.
This has been the year the Conservatives laid a swath of destruction to a host of effective and inexpensive aid programs, resulting in more disease, more poverty and more death. Is this the Conservative ideal or simply gross mismanagement? Neither is acceptable.
But a new year is ahead, with a chance to undo the worst of the damage that has been done. Unfortunately, rumour has it that even further cuts are in the offing at CIDA. This must not happen. Canadians and the world expect and deserve a lot better from this government.
Nathaniel PooleVictoria
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In a year plagued by labour unrest, a Picket line hits UVic greeting thousands of students returning to class at the Univer-sity of Victoria. Most students crossed the lines and went to classes. Management and CUPE 4163 continued to bargain into December.
Helping with life’s changes and challenges, Oak Bay volunteer services celebrated 35 years of service to the community with a series of awards to its volun-teers.
Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock takes the Island with rid-ers ready for their 1,000 kilo-metre bike ride down Vancou-ver Island, including Oak Bay Const. Dorothy Junio and Black Press’ Kyle Slavin who took on a role as media rider. This year’s tour raised $1.1 million, includ-ing more than $40,000 from Oak Bay High, for pediatric cancer research and Camp Goodtimes.
More than buildings at stake in heritage plan as Oak Bay launched a process to develop a heritage plan for the community based on the fundamental val-ues that shape the nature of Oak Bay’s character.
Council hopes the plan will address some of the contro-versies within the community related to development.
On the road brought the story of the burgeoning phenom-enon of “voluntourism” to the forefront with the departure of
18-year-old Jillian Westby for Ecuador. The feature looked at the perils and pitfalls of volun-tourism, along with the potential benefits.
Firefighters’ history of giving takes a step forward as Oak Bay firefighters established their own charitable foundation to con-tinue a long history of giving to the community they serve. The designation allows the depart-ment to accept larger individual and corporate donations and issue tax receipts for charitable donations to their foundation.
The penny dropped when the costs of the sewage treat-ment plan revealed Oak Bay to pay lion’s share for sewage treat-ment, a higher per capita charge than any other municipality. An antiquated pipe system which affects flows is the source of the problem.
NDP, Liberals pick byelection candidates. The liberals almost needn’t have bothered as they dropped to third in the subse-quent election, despite efforts to make the sewage plan a central issue.
B.C. Transit strike forces mul-tiple cancellations as job action by transit workers began in late October. The contract dispute centres around a proposal to replace the current fleet of com-munity shuttle buses with a new fleet of five slightly larger shuttle buses made in China.
Tsunami fears rise in wake of quake. A 7.7 magnitude earth-quake off Haida Gwaii Oct. 27 raised concerns about tsunami warning response times. It was a lesson-learned and notification protocols have been improved.
The News featured the iconic Todd House and the contro-versy surrounding its use as a rental property in Finding value in heritage.
Tennis bubble slated for replace-ment causing one member of the Oak Bay Recreation Commis-sion to become so outraged by the decision surrounding the replacement that he declined to stay on the Commission.
Tennis players seemed pleased with the plan which took into consideration the cost to the municipality.
A broke watermain was noth-ing short of a Disaster to Bowker Avenue residents. It may not have been a disaster of epic pro-portions, but a serious mistake by municipal crews sent millions of litres of water flooding into Bowker Avenue homes Nov. 20. The municipality was criticized for its failure to respond appro-priately.
By year’s end, all but the hard-est hit in the area were back home dealing with repairs and some homes were undergoing soil testing to detect diesel con-tamination.
A community tradition contin-ued as the Lighted boat parade brings in the season. Hundreds gathered on the shoreline to watch the parade that supports the Salvation Army and Oak Bay Kiwanis.
Regulating beauty, taste in development updated residents on a review of a report on build-ing size limits. The discussion will continue at a future commit-tee of the whole meeting.
Heritage planning continues in Oak Bay as an ongoing consul-tation process to identify Oak Bay’s heritage values for incor-poration in a new heritage plan continues to take public input.
AA LOOKLOOK BACKBACK AT AT 2012
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
After years of anticipation and
delays, Kevin Walker announced elements
of the new Oak Bay Beach Hotel would be up and
running Oct. 4. The grand opening was
held Dec. 1 with a community party.
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Oak Bay municipal
worker Adam Gow carries
sandbags after a water
main break on Bowker Avenue
in November. Sharon Tiffin/News staff
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Jillian Westby did her homework before heading to Ecuador to volunteer.
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Barbs win! Barbs win!Barbs smash St. Mikes in rugby's Boot Game. Kimia Hamedi scored 18 points to lead the Oak Bay Barbarians over St. Michaels University, 38-17, in the 2012 Gareth Rees Boot Game
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LAURA LAVIN/NEWS STAFFIntergenerational transfer of wealth. Sounds more fun
than estate planning, doesn’t it?With many seniors managing assets far beyond the
family home these days, passing that wealth along to children and grandchildren before the taxman gets a bite has become more important than ever.
Transferring wealth before death will help save taxes, and help out family members when they need it most, says independent nancial planning and investment advisor Peter Dolezal.
“The one thing I encourage folks to do is share their money while they’re still alive,” Dolezal says. “A lot of them set up RESPs (registered education savings plan) for their grandchildren. Gaye (Dolezal’s wife) and I take our grandchildren on holiday somewhere once a year.”
Today, more people are buying into the philosophy: if your investments are paying you enough, then you can
share with your family and help pay down home mortgages or education for children or grandchildren.
“One of the biggest misconceptions is that Canada has inheritance tax, which we don’t,” says Audrey McFarlane, nancial advisor with Edward Jones in Oak Bay. “On the other hand, we do have to le a nal (tax) return which does have tax consequences.”
A nal tax return takes into account all RRSPs or RRIFs, unless those are left directly to a spouse or disabled child, rather than becoming part of your overall estate.
“In an ideal world everybody would sit down and talk about our wishes,” says McFarlane. “It needs to be a living plan, I think. There are issues around not having traditional marriages, what people want to do around charities – those things change over time.”
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Making a will is still the least expensive and simplest way to deal with what happens to your assets
after you die, but many worry about what comes before death.
“The biggest problem people worry about is being able to afford a high-end care facility that can cost $6,000 or $7,000 a month,” says Dolezal. “Something like that can erode capital pretty fast.”
However, he points out, only around six per cent of Canadian seniors end up in care facilities. “It’s not a high risk,” he says. “And for both (members of a couple) to end up in care is about three per cent.”
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As a carpenter, Dominic renovated homes for his clients. As a child, he and his mother found a home in a shelter when times were hard. A counselor there showed Dominic a future filled with opportunity, and he never forgot that life-changing vision. Thanks to
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Carpenter Dominic Mason died in 1989
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As a carpenter, Dominic renovated homes for his clients. As a child, he and his mother found a home in a shelter when times were hard. A counselor there showed Dominic a future fi lled with opportunity, and he never forgot that life-changing vision.
Thanks to a bequest in his will, a few more children will have a chance to build their dreams. Include your favourite cause in your will or estate plan. Contact a charitable organization, lawyer, fi nancial advisor or local LEAVE A LEGACY TM program to learn how.
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Respect nurtured with ageThis week my wife
left me and our uffy little Mexi-mutt and the relative comfort of our modest retirement rancher to y into the frozen wastes of the Yukon to work at a zinc mine.
She Skyped me from her closet-sized dormitory cell to report that it was 30 below outside with the wind chill.
I know what you’re thinking. Is the poor woman that desperate to escape domestic bliss that she’s jumped on a polar express to work a gazillion miles from anything resembling a creature comfort, like Costco? In fact, she’s just doing what she’s always done best, nurture leadership in the workplace. However, I am not convinced that she ever thought that the dawning of her golden years would be spent teaching underground miners how to be leaders. Don’t they just follow the light to the end of the tunnel?
What about me, you ask? Well, it’s not like I’m just kicking up, stringing beer tabs into necklaces and throwing the dog a bone. I’m working too. For the past few months I’ve been plugging away as a community newspaper reporter lling in for a colleague on leave. I happen to believe that community newspapers are the nal frontier
of journalism, but when I was 48 I did not suspect for a minute that I’d be doing cop checks and chamber lunches at 68. Last month, I actually had to do a feature on the local pole dancing tness studio. I haven’t had to bite my tongue that hard in many years.
I’m not looking for sympathy here. We’re lucky to have professions that we love and are still in demand. And, as we toil into retirement, we are in the good company of thousands of would-be snowbirds whose wings have been clipped by economic reality.
Did you know one in four seniors age 65 to 70 is still working; more than double what it was in 2000, and a quarter of them can only nd part-time work? One-third of employees over 65 are earning less than two-thirds of the median hourly wage.
A Stats Can survey of 55-plus workers found that only one-third had retired because they were nancially ready. More than half of fully retired workers over 55 have chronic health conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes that have forced them out of the workplace.
Leger Marketing reports that 57 per cent of pre-seniors 50 to 59 would rather work longer to live better in retirement, versus just 25 per cent who are prepared to live modestly in order to retire early.
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS
November – Oak Bay Artists’ Fall Studio Tour. www.oakbayartists.com
Nov. 6 – UVic Astronomy Open House, 8 to 10pm Wednesdays through April. astrowww.phys.uvic.ca
Nov. 11 – Remembrance Day.
Nov. 12 – Free Oak Bay Emergency Preparedness workshop, Windsor Park Pavilion, 6:45pm. Register at 250-592-9121.
Nov. 23 – Oak Bay Green Committee Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
Nov. 24 – Welcome the holiday season with Oak Bay’s annual holiday light-up along the Avenue.www.visitoakbayvillage.ca
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Highlighting local events in the Oak Bay throughout 2013
Jan. 1 – Community Walk with Mayor & Council, 12:30pm. 250-595-7946
Jan. 1 – New Year’s Day recreation activities, Oak Bay Rec Centre. 250-370-7300
Jan. 1 to 13 – New Year’s Classic tennis tournament, Oak Bay Rec Centre. 250-595-7946
Jan. 5 & 6 – Christmas tree chipping at Fireman’s Park and Fort & Foul Bay Safeway.
Jan. 6 to 11 – Free Yoga Week at Ajna Yoga Studio. Register: www.ajnayoga.ca
Jan. 15 – Robbie Burns Dinner, Monterey Centre. 250-370-7300.
Jan. 26 – Family Movie Night, Oak Bay Rec Centre, 5pm. 250-595-7946Jan. 26 – Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
May 4 & 5 – Oak Bay Artist Studio Tour, 12 to 4:30pm. www.oakbayartists.com
May 12 – Mother’s Day at Recreation Oak Bay. www.oakbay.ca
May 9 – Emergency Preparedness Workshop at the Oak Bay Public Library.
May 10 – Move for Health Day toonie drop-in from Recreation Oak Bay. www.oakbay.ca
May 10 – Spring Fling at Henderson Rec Centre, with family fun from 6 to 8pm. www.oakbay.ca
May 14 – Emergency Preparedness workshop, Windsor Pavilion, 6:45pm. 250-592-9121.
May 25 – Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
May 26 – Oak Bay Half Marathon. www.oakbayhalf.com
June 1 & 2 – Oak Bay Tea Party at Willows Park. www.oakbayteaparty.com
June 8 – Garagellennium, 9am to 1pm. www.oakbaygaragesale.com
June 14 to 16 – Operation Trackshoes at UVic. www.trackshoes.ca
June 16 – Father’s Day at Recreation Oak Bay. www.oakbay.ca
June 18 – Oak Bay High School Grad Ceremony, UVic.
June 19 – Summer Market on Oak Bay Avenue. www.visitoakbayvillage.ca
June 22 – Oak Bay Green Committee Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
June 27 – School’s out for summer! Head to Willow’s Beach for some summer fun.
March 9 to 24 – SD 61 Spring Break.
March 13 – St. Patrick’s Dinner at Monterey Centre. 250-370-7300.
March 12 – Oak Bay Emergency Preparedness workshop. 250-592-9121.
March 23 – Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
March 28 – Free Heart Warming heart disease workshop for women, 10 to 11:30am, Monterey Centre. 250-370-7300
March 29 to April 1 – Easter weekend activities at Oak Bay Rec Centre.
Late March – Black Press Women in Business Gala. [email protected]
March 30 – Family Movie Night at SportView, Oak Bay Rec Centre, 5pm. 250-595-7946
Feb. 6 – UVic Astronomy Open House, 8 to 10pm Wednesdays through April. astrowww.phys.uvic.ca
Feb. 7 – Senior Emergency Preparedness, 1 to 3pm, Monterey Centre. 250-370-7300.
Feb. 7 – Oak Bay Volunteer Services’ Blighty’s Bistro fundraising dinner. www.oakbayvolunteers.bc.ca.
Feb. 9 – Mardi Gras Dinner & Dance at Monterey Centre. 250-370-7300.
Feb. 23 – Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
Feb. 23 – Monterey Centre Rummage Sale, 9am to 1pm 250-370-7300
Feb. 23 – Family Movie Night at SportView, Oak Bay Rec Centre, 5pm. 250-595-7946.
July 17 – Summer Market on Oak Bay Avenue. www.visitoakbayvillage.ca
July 20 – Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Paint-In, with artists demonstrating their work along Moss Street. www.aggv.ca
July 24, 27 & 28 – Uplands Heart fundraising tournaments for women, juniors & men. www.uplandsgolfclub.org
July 27 – Oak Bay Green Committee Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
July 27 – Jaguar Car Club of Victoria Jaguars on the Island Concours d’Elegance at Windsor Park. www.jcna.com
December – Support families in need with the annual Black Press Pennies for Presents fundraiser.
Early December – Island Equipment Operators’ annual Lighted Truck Parade. www.ieoa.ca
December – Annual Oak Bay Merrython Fun Run, Henderson Rec Centre. 250-370-7200
Dec. 5 – Art on the Avenue Gallery Walk.
December – Watch for a variety of special holiday-themed activities through Recreation Oak Bay. www.oakbay.ca
Dec. 25 – Merry Christmas!
Dec. 31 – Farewell 2013, Welcome 2014!
Aug. 5 – BC Day! Check your Oak Bay News for local events and activities.
Aug. 5 – Collector Car Festival along Oak Bay Avenue.
Aug. 11 – Bowker Creek Brush-up along Bowker Creek, 11am to 4:30pm. www.oakbayartists.com
Aug. 21 – Head to the Avenue for the Oak Bay Summer Market. www.visitoakbayvillage.ca
Aug. 24 – Oak Bay Green Committee Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
Take in Oak Bay’s beautiful views with a walk along Willow’s Beach or up Anderson Hill Park.
September is almost here...Time for Back to School shopping!
April – Don’t forget to vote for the Black Press Best of the City awards!
April 3 – UVic Astronomy Open House, 8 to 10pm Wednesdays through April. astrowww.phys.uvic.ca
April 11 – Senior Emergency Preparedness Workshop, 1 to 3pm at Monterey Centre. Register: 250-370-7300.
April 14 – Scotiabank MS Walk at Willows Beach Park, 10am. 250-388-6496
April 20 – Oak Bay Artisans Show & Sale, 10am to 2pm, Monterey Centre.
April 27 – Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
April 29 to May 4 – Oak Bay Eco Week activities at Monterey Centre. www.oakbay.ca
Sept. 2 – Labour Day – Enjoy the last long-weekend of summer!
Sept. 3 – Back to school.
Sept. 8 – Art Gallery of Greater Victoria House Tour. www.aggv.ca
Sept. 10 – Free Oak Bay Emergency Preparedness workshop, Windsor Pavilion, 6:45pm. Register: 250-592-9121.
Sept. 18 – Summer Market on Oak Bay Avenue.
Sept. 28 – Oak Bay Green Committee Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
Sept. 24 – Emergency Preparedness Workshop at Windsor Park Pavilion. Info: 250-592-9121.
October – Black Press Women in Business Gala. [email protected]
Oct. 6 – Run for the Cure at UVic.
Oct. 10 – Senior Emergency Preparedness Workshop, 1 to 3pm at Monterey Centre. Register: 250-370-7300.
Oct. 14 – Happy Thanksgiving!
Oct. 26 – Oak Bay Green Committee Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
Oct. 28 to 31 – Pumpkin Art in the Village.
Oct. 31 – Trick or Treat in the Village. www.visitoakbayvillage.ca
Oct. 31 – Halloween Bonfi re in Fireman’s Park, next to the fi re hall.
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS
November – Oak Bay Artists’ Fall Studio Tour. www.oakbayartists.com
Nov. 6 – UVic Astronomy Open House, 8 to 10pm Wednesdays through April. astrowww.phys.uvic.ca
Nov. 11 – Remembrance Day.
Nov. 12 – Free Oak Bay Emergency Preparedness workshop, Windsor Park Pavilion, 6:45pm. Register at 250-592-9121.
Nov. 23 – Oak Bay Green Committee Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
Nov. 24 – Welcome the holiday season with Oak Bay’s annual holiday light-up along the Avenue.www.visitoakbayvillage.ca
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Highlighting local events in the Oak Bay throughout 2013
Jan. 1 – Community Walk with Mayor & Council, 12:30pm. 250-595-7946
Jan. 1 – New Year’s Day recreation activities, Oak Bay Rec Centre. 250-370-7300
Jan. 1 to 13 – New Year’s Classic tennis tournament, Oak Bay Rec Centre. 250-595-7946
Jan. 5 & 6 – Christmas tree chipping at Fireman’s Park and Fort & Foul Bay Safeway.
Jan. 6 to 11 – Free Yoga Week at Ajna Yoga Studio. Register: www.ajnayoga.ca
Jan. 15 – Robbie Burns Dinner, Monterey Centre. 250-370-7300.
Jan. 26 – Family Movie Night, Oak Bay Rec Centre, 5pm. 250-595-7946Jan. 26 – Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
May 4 & 5 – Oak Bay Artist Studio Tour, 12 to 4:30pm. www.oakbayartists.com
May 12 – Mother’s Day at Recreation Oak Bay. www.oakbay.ca
May 9 – Emergency Preparedness Workshop at the Oak Bay Public Library.
May 10 – Move for Health Day toonie drop-in from Recreation Oak Bay. www.oakbay.ca
May 10 – Spring Fling at Henderson Rec Centre, with family fun from 6 to 8pm. www.oakbay.ca
May 14 – Emergency Preparedness workshop, Windsor Pavilion, 6:45pm. 250-592-9121.
May 25 – Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
May 26 – Oak Bay Half Marathon. www.oakbayhalf.com
June 1 & 2 – Oak Bay Tea Party at Willows Park. www.oakbayteaparty.com
June 8 – Garagellennium, 9am to 1pm. www.oakbaygaragesale.com
June 14 to 16 – Operation Trackshoes at UVic. www.trackshoes.ca
June 16 – Father’s Day at Recreation Oak Bay. www.oakbay.ca
June 18 – Oak Bay High School Grad Ceremony, UVic.
June 19 – Summer Market on Oak Bay Avenue. www.visitoakbayvillage.ca
June 22 – Oak Bay Green Committee Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
June 27 – School’s out for summer! Head to Willow’s Beach for some summer fun.
March 9 to 24 – SD 61 Spring Break.
March 13 – St. Patrick’s Dinner at Monterey Centre. 250-370-7300.
March 12 – Oak Bay Emergency Preparedness workshop. 250-592-9121.
March 23 – Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
March 28 – Free Heart Warming heart disease workshop for women, 10 to 11:30am, Monterey Centre. 250-370-7300
March 29 to April 1 – Easter weekend activities at Oak Bay Rec Centre.
Late March – Black Press Women in Business Gala. [email protected]
March 30 – Family Movie Night at SportView, Oak Bay Rec Centre, 5pm. 250-595-7946
Feb. 6 – UVic Astronomy Open House, 8 to 10pm Wednesdays through April. astrowww.phys.uvic.ca
Feb. 7 – Senior Emergency Preparedness, 1 to 3pm, Monterey Centre. 250-370-7300.
Feb. 7 – Oak Bay Volunteer Services’ Blighty’s Bistro fundraising dinner. www.oakbayvolunteers.bc.ca.
Feb. 9 – Mardi Gras Dinner & Dance at Monterey Centre. 250-370-7300.
Feb. 23 – Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
Feb. 23 – Monterey Centre Rummage Sale, 9am to 1pm 250-370-7300
Feb. 23 – Family Movie Night at SportView, Oak Bay Rec Centre, 5pm. 250-595-7946.
July 17 – Summer Market on Oak Bay Avenue. www.visitoakbayvillage.ca
July 20 – Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Paint-In, with artists demonstrating their work along Moss Street. www.aggv.ca
July 24, 27 & 28 – Uplands Heart fundraising tournaments for women, juniors & men. www.uplandsgolfclub.org
July 27 – Oak Bay Green Committee Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
July 27 – Jaguar Car Club of Victoria Jaguars on the Island Concours d’Elegance at Windsor Park. www.jcna.com
December – Support families in need with the annual Black Press Pennies for Presents fundraiser.
Early December – Island Equipment Operators’ annual Lighted Truck Parade. www.ieoa.ca
December – Annual Oak Bay Merrython Fun Run, Henderson Rec Centre. 250-370-7200
Dec. 5 – Art on the Avenue Gallery Walk.
December – Watch for a variety of special holiday-themed activities through Recreation Oak Bay. www.oakbay.ca
Dec. 25 – Merry Christmas!
Dec. 31 – Farewell 2013, Welcome 2014!
Aug. 5 – BC Day! Check your Oak Bay News for local events and activities.
Aug. 5 – Collector Car Festival along Oak Bay Avenue.
Aug. 11 – Bowker Creek Brush-up along Bowker Creek, 11am to 4:30pm. www.oakbayartists.com
Aug. 21 – Head to the Avenue for the Oak Bay Summer Market. www.visitoakbayvillage.ca
Aug. 24 – Oak Bay Green Committee Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
Take in Oak Bay’s beautiful views with a walk along Willow’s Beach or up Anderson Hill Park.
September is almost here...Time for Back to School shopping!
April – Don’t forget to vote for the Black Press Best of the City awards!
April 3 – UVic Astronomy Open House, 8 to 10pm Wednesdays through April. astrowww.phys.uvic.ca
April 11 – Senior Emergency Preparedness Workshop, 1 to 3pm at Monterey Centre. Register: 250-370-7300.
April 14 – Scotiabank MS Walk at Willows Beach Park, 10am. 250-388-6496
April 20 – Oak Bay Artisans Show & Sale, 10am to 2pm, Monterey Centre.
April 27 – Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
April 29 to May 4 – Oak Bay Eco Week activities at Monterey Centre. www.oakbay.ca
Sept. 2 – Labour Day – Enjoy the last long-weekend of summer!
Sept. 3 – Back to school.
Sept. 8 – Art Gallery of Greater Victoria House Tour. www.aggv.ca
Sept. 10 – Free Oak Bay Emergency Preparedness workshop, Windsor Pavilion, 6:45pm. Register: 250-592-9121.
Sept. 18 – Summer Market on Oak Bay Avenue.
Sept. 28 – Oak Bay Green Committee Pacifi c Mobile Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
Sept. 24 – Emergency Preparedness Workshop at Windsor Park Pavilion. Info: 250-592-9121.
October – Black Press Women in Business Gala. [email protected]
Oct. 6 – Run for the Cure at UVic.
Oct. 10 – Senior Emergency Preparedness Workshop, 1 to 3pm at Monterey Centre. Register: 250-370-7300.
Oct. 14 – Happy Thanksgiving!
Oct. 26 – Oak Bay Green Committee Recycling, Carnarvon Park, 9 to 11:30am.
Oct. 28 to 31 – Pumpkin Art in the Village.
Oct. 31 – Trick or Treat in the Village. www.visitoakbayvillage.ca
Oct. 31 – Halloween Bonfi re in Fireman’s Park, next to the fi re hall.
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Most people are living in their biggest nancial asset – their home.
“You have to think, if you go into a care facility, you can sell any real estate you have and add that to your normal income. And you don’t have to worry about other things like food, a car, etc. If you’re in a facility, all those costs will disappear,” Dolezal says.
Most people will not outlive their nancial assets, agrees McFarlane. “Many people are house rich and cash poor. There are still pensions out there. … There is also critical illness and long-term care insurance.”
Younger seniors will also bene t from one of the largest shifts in assets to come. “Baby boomers are in a position to see huge transfers of wealth from their parents,” says Dolezal. “It’s going to be a phenomenal amount of money over the next 10 to 15 years.
“There is a lot of extra cash people are going to be leaving behind. Our parents’ generation is a more frugal generation than ours.”
Baby boomers though, have a more free-spending lifestyle and will be leaving less to their kids, he adds.
“The more you can plan the easier it is for whoever is left,” says McFarlane. “There is no single solution. It’s very individualized. It’s something everybody needs to do, but how you do it is up to the individual.”
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Joan Peggs calls herself Bionic Joan, not because of all the athletic medals she won while growing up in Hong Kong (including one she won for breaking the existing record for the 200 metre race with the time of 27.6 seconds), but because of the fancy brace she has to wear on her leg after arthroscopic surgery on her knee. Peggs had the medals she won in the ‘60s made into a bracelet but because of the number of medals, she fi nds it too heavy to wear.
In addition to serving her second term as president and being an active member of the Oak Bay Rotary Club, Peggs is also involved with Ballet Victoria as a donor, a member of the fundraising committee and as an attendee at their performances. She has volunteered with the Belfry Theatre from the year after it opened. She now coordinates the Friday night volunteers and is also a donor. She is also a Crescendo Circle member of the Victoria Conservatory of Music. Peggs enjoys volunteering because of the interaction with a variety of people and hopes that her activities help people become more educated and improve their living conditions or their quality of life.
Peggs moved to Victoria from Ontario in 1971 for a teaching position at Vic High where she taught Home Economics. While teaching, she also operated a catering service and did relief cooking at Government House. In 1984, she bought a 1913 house in James Bay, renovating it into a bed and breakfast and running it part-time with the help of friends until 1991 when she resigned from teaching to run the inn fulltime, a job she continued for 19 years.
Q What is your favourite Oak Bay destination or activity?
A I enjoy watching the activity in the Strait of Juan De Fuca,
especially the pilot boats meeting up with the shipping traffi c.
Q What “words of wisdom”have you strived to follow from
your parents?
A Strive to do your best; extend a helping hand to others.
Q What are your hobbies?
A I do a lot of gardening, it provides great fresh air, exercise
and creativity. I also exercise regularly, walking dogs and spending time at Crystal Pool.
Where to begin:"In an ideal world everybody would sit down and talk about our wishes."
- Audrey McFarlane
Q What’s at the top of your“bucket list”?
A I do not have a bucket list. Every activity is a joy.
Q What are you reading right now?
A Reading? With gardening, dogs to walk, a business to run and
volunteer involvement, I often do not have time to read the newspaper let alone a book.
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Ecological Reserve. “We call them the Treasure Islands,” he said. “They are the last place where things are like they were a thousand years ago.”
Sirois has donated thousands of hours to the back breaking work of removing invasive species and cleaning the Island’s shores of garbage. He likes to kayak around the Islands off Oak Bay, documenting the experiences in lm and journals.
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I feel like I say this every year, but 2012 wasn’t exactly the best year in movies. To be honest, I had trouble picking my top 10. There
didn’t seem to be any clear front-runners. I’ll stand behind every movie on my list as being a great one, but I don’t have the same gushy sense of joy about my list that I usually do.
The great Mos Def (that’s right) once described hip-hop as a reflection of the society that breeds it and not “some monster living in the hills.” It’s the same deal with cinema, always has been. Looking at the vast major-ity of new releases, it seems we are all a bit lost and more than a little down. Even the good movies seem to agree. This year bleak was beautiful, the beautiful bleak.
Here are the 10 films that I feel either best avoided that, or did it the best: (Please note: there are films that haven’t come out yet, such as Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty, that could have likely made the list. Alas I do not have the privilege of attending film festivals or getting screeners.) 10. Silver Linings PlaybookIn the midst of all the doom and gloom this year, Silver Linings Play-book showed you can
make a romantic, happy-ending Hollywood movie and do so in an intelligent and highly enjoyable man-ner. Plus Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence exude the stuff from which movie stars are made.
9. Life of PiLife of Pi is pure movie magic. Ang Lee’s wonder-
ful adaptation of a book loved by everyone in the world but me is a visual wonder that dazzles while it delights. With perhaps the best use of 3D in a movie yet, Pi’s tale of a lifeboat, a tiger and the existence of God is a lush, loving smile of a film, something we needed this year.
8. Take This WaltzSarah Polley should be declared Canada’s greatest treasure and just get it over with. This has been her year up here, with both this film and her personal doc Stories We Tell coming out, and she deserves it. Take This Waltz is absolutely heartbreaking, but it’s also honest and, in its honesty, beautiful.
7. PrometheusPrometheus gets my exalted title of greatest flawed masterpiece of the year. With this Alien series prequel Ridley Scott showed all the new kids how great filmmaking, filmmaking with ambition and pur-pose, is done. Even with its flaws, Prometheus offered one hell of an enthralling, eyes-wide-with-wonder experience.
6. The Amazing Spider-ManAt least one film on the list had to be the result of a childlike joyful time at the movies. None did that better than this reboot of a movie only 10 years old, of all things. Many will disagree with this choice, but with killer 3D (that crane sequence was astounding), great movie-star performances and a commitment to doing formula right, the film was, well, amazing.
5. The GreyIn the midst of winter darkness, The Grey felt like the most honest movie I had seen all through those cold months. Sure it was marketed by showing Liam Neeson lining up to punch a wolf in the face, but The Grey was a thriller of an adventure movie that never sugarcoated its overarching subject: death.
4. The Deep Blue SeaThe Deep Blue Sea is probably the most breathlessly dramatic and emotionally gripping film of the year. Invoking a tone of repressed emotion, the movie tells
its sad, troubled tale of divorce and adultery with the sort of calm, steady, subtle beauty that only the English manage so well.
3. Oslo, August 31Speaking of bleak, Oslo, August 31 is a riveting look at addiction, within the context of a generation, and a city, struggling with the disappointments and strug-gle of maturity. Intensely crafted and acted, it is a hard film to watch at times, but there is poignancy to be found in its main character’s troubled view of a world he can’t understand and yet can no longer escape.
2. FlightI’m a Denzel fan, but mainly in that I like watching him yell at people and being all Denzel. He does a little of that here but it’s also the performance of the year and a career. With its mature look at alcohol-ism wrapped in the story of a plane crash, Flight was both one of the most entertaining movies of the year and one of the most touching.
1. LincolnIn the midst of all this cinematic misery nothing sounded worse than another doe-eyed smaltz fest from Steven Spielberg, especially with the travesty called War Horse fresh in my mind. But I’ll be damned if old Stevie didn’t pull out a surprise and turn in the most compelling, well-wrought, and yet non-insult-ingly inspiring movie of the year. Lincoln reminded me that society can, at times, and with a full recognition of its complexities and shortcomings, come together to do something wonderful and important.
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When a fan passed Ryder Hesjedal a hockey stick with
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In May, the 32-year-old was the first Canadian to win the Giro d’Italia.
His accolades continue as last weekend Hesejdal won his third Canadian Cyclist of the Year award,
ahead of Victoria’s Geoff Kabush in second.
At home it’s been easy to spot the effect, as a growing number of cyclists bomb around our city in the famous blue and white Garmin-Sharp jerseys of Hesjedal’s team.
The story arc for the Giro win was perfect. In January, Hesjedal held court at GoodLife Fitness in Vic West to promote the sum-mer’s Tour de Victoria, at which time he announced he’d been green lighted as the team’s leading man in Italy.
Right from the get-go Hesjedal was sup-ported by his teammates in Italy. And when the race ended with a time trial, Hesjedal put in one of the top performances of his life, to erase the 30 second deficit between him and first place for the win.
Going into the Tour de France, Hesjedal was named a top contender by analysts, and looked like one too, until wipeouts and injuries knocked him out.
While the Giro is Hesjedal’s best result, revisionists were also busy tinkering with his next best one. This year Hesjedal’s 2010 Tour de France result was bumped from seventh to sixth overall, as winner Alberto Contador was stripped of his title for dop-ing. The revoking is just one of doping’s many stains on the sport in 2012, which the USADA has made the most significant hap-pening of this year’s sports calendar.
Tyler Hamilton’s tell all confession, The Secret Race (this reporter’s pick of 2012 sports books), is at the forefront of cycling’s current state. In it are statements from cur-rent Garmin-Sharp members and team man-ager, Jon Vaughters, explaining his desire to run a “clean team,” Garmin’s mantra.
Olympic triumphs
GillianCarleton, Ryan Cochrane, Richard Wein-berger, and the rowing men’s and women’s eight boats all pulled in gold medals from the 2012 London Olympics with Victoria connections.
Cyclist Gillian Carleton came out of the slipstream to win bronze for Canada in the track cycling team pursuit. Cochrane swam to silver in the 1,500 metre freestyle, adding to his bronze from 2008. Weinberger, a UVic Vike from Surrey, placed third in the men’s open water 10km marathon swim.
Malcolm Howard captained the men’s eight to silver, his second straight medal, with 2008 gold medal returnees Andrew Byrnes and coxswain Brian Price. Vikes row-ing alumni Darcy Marquardt and Rachelle Vinberg won silver in the women’s eight.
High school heroes
Lars Borne-mann and Mason Swift accom-plished rare feats on the same late November week-end as they were named the MVPs of their team’s pro-vincial high school championship.
It was the sec-ond straight year winning the MVP award for both,
as each’s team also won its respective back-to-back championship.
Bornemann’s Oak Bay Barbers defended its AAA volleyball title and Swift’s Mount Douglas Rams won its second-straight AAA Subway Bowl football trophy.
Bornemann will likely play in the CIS for the UBC-Okanagan Heat and study engineer-ing while Swift is still weighing his options.
Controversies at Elk Lake
Saanich rower Lindsay Jenner-ich emerged as a leading voice amongst a group of Rowing Canada ath-letes who spoke their displeasure with the organization’s poli-tics in 2012.
The Claremont secondary and UVic Vikes grad is one of the few born and bred members of RC to train at Elk Lake, and made waves as the only women’s team to train there, going against RC’s agenda. Then less than three months out from the Olympics, Jennerich’s doubles partner Tracy Cameron retired from the sport, making way for North Saanich’s Patri-cia Obee to compete as a 20-year-old.
Jennerich was also a staunch supporter of men’s coach Mike Spracklen, both in the media and on her blog. When he was dis-missed in the fall, Jennerich was part of a large movement against it.
Spracklen, who came here from England with his wife, lived in Sidney for 12 years and guided Canada to multiple gold medals at the Olympics and World Championships. His successor will be appointed in January.
WHL playoffs came aroundThe Victoria Royals first season in Victo-
ria ended with a first round playoff exit to the Kamloops Blazers.
It ended a 23-year long break since the Victoria Cougars last played a Western Hockey League playoff game here.
Baseball announces returnThe baseball gods answered the prayers
of many as the West Coast League and City of Victoria announced an expansion team for 2013. It’s wood-bat baseball, and the players are top professional prospects play-ing in college and universities. The Victo-ria HarbourCats will play at Royal Athletic Park.
There is much to choose from the 2012 sports calendar, so a list of top hits are included with this story at Vicnews.com. The News’ Jan. 2 issue will preview some likely scenarios in 2013.
SPORTSHesjedal tops list for 2012
Graham Watson/Garmin Sharp
Cycling was much sexier in Canada this year than it was in the U.S.A. West Shore’s Ryder Hesjedal was on top of it, winning the Giro d’Italia, while doping declarations by many of the U.S.A.’s top cyclists, including some of Hesjedal’s teammates and his team manager, muddled the sport’s image.
Ryder Hesjedal leads Victoria newsmakers
Ryan Cochrane
Lars Bornemann
Lindsay Jennerich
Ryder Hesjedal
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With provincial blessing in hand, the City of Victoria coun-cil has adopted new bylaws pro-hibiting people from feeding a variety of animals.
Last March, council gave first nod to prohibition on feed-ing gulls, crows and pigeons in the downtown core, as well as racoons, squirrels and feral rab-bits anywhere in the city.
One snag held up the animal control bylaw, however. While municipalities have been given jurisdiction over most nuisance
species, gulls require special per-mission due to their inclusion in the federal Migratory Birds Con-vention Act.
On Nov. 1, the Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations gave Vic-toria’s proposed feeding ban the thumbs up. Council passed the bylaw Dec. 13.
Violators face a $125 fine for feeding most prohibited animals on the list – or $350 for feeding racoons or deer.
The fine won’t be the first line of defence, however.
“Our goal is to educate the public,” said Mark Hayden, Vic-
toria’s manager of bylaw and licensing services. “This isn’t an arbitrary thing. There is a ratio-nale behind it.”
Enforcement will be reserved for “individuals that aren’t get-ting the message for some rea-son,” he said.
Hayden estimates the city receives between one and two complaints per week during the summer season about people feeding animals.
A ban on feeding deer has been in place for years, but so far, nobody has been ticketed for the offence.
Feeding nuisance animals ticketable offence in cityCity of Victoria moves to enact fine structure for violators
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necessarily sustainable,” he said, responding to questions from the coun-cil.
It’s one of the rea-sons why the SODC has thrown its support behind a plan to imple-ment a business improve-ment area (BIA) in Sid-ney’s downtown core.
That plan, led by the Sidney Business Devel-opment Group and now before town council for a decision on approvals process, would collect fees from member busi-ness owners.
Those fees would be used as marketing seed money to promote Sidney and, it is thought, attract more shoppers and tourists to the area.
“Without a doubt, we would be one of the main beneficiaries of that,” Matthews said.
The SODC has spent in the neighbourhood of $536,000 on advertising and marketing in the last three years.
A report on the aquarium’s 2012/13 budget states they have overspent in that department in each of the last three years. This year, the mar-keting budget is slashed to $65,000, not including staff time.
It’s one of the aquarium’s cost-saving measures in their budget, which also raises its admission fees.
Yet while the SODC lost money in each of its first three years of operation, Matthews said they’ve cut the red in half each year and are look-
ing at a small budget surplus in 2013.To keep their bottom line on the
grow, Matthews outlined the aquari-um’s next big plan, one he said they hope will make Sidney a hub for ocean exploration at scientific and family levels.
“We can’t grow our existing facil-ity,” he explained, “so we’ll grow outside.”
A concept called the Salish Sea Institute is being developed by the SODC board and staff, with plans to roll out new programs and facilities over the next 18 months.
Using the Salish Sea Marine Con-servation Area and working with local First Nations, Parks Canada and other stakeholders, the idea is
to offer high-end eco-adventure tourism, citizen science opportunities, national and international research outstations and family outings to unique waters and beaches near Sidney.
“If Tofino can sell storms, we should be able to sell beaches during the day and really good hotels at night,” Matthews said.
He said they’re estimating it will cost $180,000 to start the institute, which would be a non-profit group, linked to the SODC.
They have already raised $60,000, Matthews said. It will cost an estimated $1.5 million more to build outstations, a First Nations big house and other infrastructure.
Matthews said it’s a step to help draw more visitors to the area, helping keep the community thriving.
“We need to think big,” he said, “like we did when we first built the Ocean Discovery Centre.”
Steven HeywoodNews staff
Faced with more than half of its yearly visitors coming from the Capital Regional District and sta-tistics that show overall visits are dropping, the Shaw Ocean Discov-ery Centre is looking to the sea for inspiration.
Angus Matthews, executive direc-tor of SODC, told Sidney town coun-cil in a budget overview that the aquarium is looking to the future, and without change in the commu-nity, it’s not looking all that bright.
“Fifty-four per cent of our visitors
in 2012 are coming from the Island,” Matthews said, noting 46 per cent of those are from the South Island.
“We’re locked into a bit of a pat-tern and we need to break out into the broader tourism market.”
Over the last three years, Mat-thews said the SODC has attracted more than 360,000 people to its facility — that’s 120,000 per year, on average.
This year, he said a trend that has been consistent over that time is showing a decline in visitors even during the peak tourist season in Sidney.
“Yes, it’s a big concern and not
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Patrons of the Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre in Sidney view colourful sea life in one of the aquarium tanks.
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Victoria Coun. Charlayne Thornton-Joe as Victoria-
Swan Lake MLA Rob Fleming picks up more turkey dinners to serve
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Daniel PalmerNews staff
Esquimalt council agreed to finalize a five-year renewal for public use of Macaulay Point Park.
The land is owned by the Department of National Defence and the agreement represents a shared partnership for maintenance and monitoring going forward.
DND has implemented several improvements over the past year at the park, including the installation of 900 metres of spilt rail fencing to help protect at-risk plant species. Signs have also been installed to educate park users on the native plants.
Coun. Meagan Brame told staff at the Dec. 17 council meeting that she had received complaints from numerous residents when the fencing was installed. She said there needs to be greater awareness about who owns the land.
“People need to know this is a federally owned park,” she said.
The agreement allows for continued off-leash dog use at the park, but staff warned that any destruction of protected plant species could put an end to that. “Should this restriction fail to result in the level of protection required at the site, (DND) could completely ban dogs from the site,” the report stated.
Parks staff will be responsible for conservation efforts, while military police will patrol the park, staff said.
Off leash dogs to stay at Macaulay Pt. Park
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