Oak Bay News, February 11, 2015

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Rover at homeIrish Rovers celebrate 50 years with Victoria concert

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NEWS: Windsor talk looks into sacred plants /A2SPORTS: Skater heading to Canada Games /A9 ARTS: Upstairs Lounge brings back the funk /A11

OAK BAYNEWSStudents immersed in pilot project

Christine van ReeuwykNews Staff

Tubs of water crawling with sea critters settled amid groups of Grade 6 and 7 students on a Thursday morning at Monterey middle school has the makings of an epic water fight. Instead, the respectful youngsters dip hands into water, some tentatively others enthusiastically, to stroke a sea star or gently poke a scallop into flitting around its bucket.

It’s the hands-on kind of day that is pretty common for the 28 students of the pilot Monterey ocean sciences program for Grade 7 students.

“It’s been a dream come true to put together this program,” said teacher Mark Brown, who started crafting it a couple years ago. “I came at teaching late, after 14 years as a professional sea kayaker taking tourists in all kinds of exotic places.”

He started teaching in 2000 after settling in Victoria for family of his own and taking an “indoor job” where he sought various ways to get kids outdoors. That’s brought groups to the seashore and cleaning up Anderson Hill Park.

“It’s been very exciting to marry those skills that were dormant for me with classroom teaching.

He spent two years getting re-certified in first aid and guiding to professional levels and designing the outdoor sciences program that incorporates into the standard curriculum.

“When students get outside it makes them more alive. It makes them more enthusiastic as learners. There’s something about having the sun on your shoulders and the wind in your face and to be questioning how nature works. It’s basic and it fulfills us as people,” Brown said. “I find these students are very enthusiastic to get outside.”

He takes his diverse class – representing every school clique from artsy to athletic – on local nature hikes and to spend time “harmonizing in nature.”

“I have never seen such an enthusiastic exuberant noisy group of kids as these guys. I

can’t keep them down they are so excitable. They’re hands on but they’re quite social,” he said. “There’s a huge social and personality diversity in this classroom. They’re all coming together, this odd jumble of personalities.”

Brown’s at a loss to know if he has “this mix” of personalities each year and it’s just enhanced by the program or the program’s drawn such a diverse group. Either way, these students are keen.

“Unlike any other classroom I’ve ever taught before they actually applied to get into my classroom. That makes kids committed.”

The only prerequisite was that they were not intimidated by water and a $430 fee. Most of the costs are associated with the multiple paddling opportunities provided the students.

“We’ve kept it as low [cost] as possible. The way the program is organized is 14 kids go on the water at a time in a class of 28. Industry standard is five beginners to one professional,” Brown said. His updated certifications help allay those costs.

They’re developing team skills, paddling with a partner, collectively moving the fleet of kayaks, and maintaining gear. They’re learning to dress and act appropriately and to identify various sea life through things such as the World Fisheries Trust Sequaria touch tanks. Monterey is designated a Wild School through a partnership with WildBC, which helps fund programs such as the marine invertebrate studies run by Seaquaria.

“When they find a sea animal, if it’s squishy and soft they can deduce it can’t live in the intertidal zone,” Brown said.

They do a handful of sea kayak lessons at Willows Beach and learn to deal with capsizing at Elk Lake.

It all leads to the main event – an overnight kayaking expedition to Discover Island in June. By that time, Brown said, students will have developed ecological, physical and social responsibility skills for a safe, successful trip.

“We’re creating independent, problem-solving students that have a real hands-on understanding of their natural environment,” Brown said. “They’re kinaesthetic learners and my program really appeals to that.” [email protected]

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Students hit the water in a series of sea kayaking exercises that leads up to an overnight on Discovery Island in the new ocean studies program at Monterey middle school. See photos page A13.

Monterey takes students outdoors for one-year ocean sciences program

Did you know?n The program is for Grade 7 students, but a strike/lockout situation to wrap last school year made for awkward recruiting so this year’s group is a 6/7 split class. Students can only participate one year in the program. “We’re going to make sure that 28 new students come in for next year,” Brown said. “We’ll probably start making the applications available around spring break time.”

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Songhees elder Sellemah will welcome residents to her traditional homeland at Windsor Park before guests delve into the sacred plant life in the boundaries of Oak Bay.

Friends of Uplands Park and the Oak Bay Heritage Commission

offer the perspective of the The Sacred and Healing Plants of Uplands Park. Renowned Canadian ethnobotanist Nancy Turner will speak about the plants in Uplands Park that have been important to the Songhees culture over many centuries.

“For First Nations, plants and animals

are considered to be entities that are like our relatives. They’re considered as equal to humans so it’s a different kind of perspective of plants and animals. They’re treated with, I’d say, more respect than many people elsewhere would treat plants,” Turner said. “Everything, all the plants there in the park are really special for the people of the Songhees Nation.”

Her example: First Nations traditionally would almost ask permission, and certainly give thanks, to cut down or use a portion of a tree. Plants have always been used by First Nations. The underground portion of liquorice fern is used to treat coughs and sore throats. Willow bark is the

original source of aspirin, used as a pain killer and to treat fevers.

“You can’t really separate out the healing properties of plants that are eaten as well,” Turner said. “For example, rose hips are a great source of vitamin C and they would have been a good source of food in the winter.”

She’ll even offer perspective on how those cultures maintained their lands.

“The whole Uplands park area was culturally important for the Songhees people especially. They would have used the entire area. It’s a place where they would have harvested camas,” Turner said.

The early families likely used controlled burns on occasion

to keep those camas meadows productive. “They used what they would call cold fires, ground fires, to keep down the shrubs and brush.”

The Sacred and Healing Plants of Uplands Park will be held Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. in the upstairs meeting room at Windsor Park Pavilion. Early arrival is recommended as seating is limited. Donations are welcome.

“It’s really important for all of us to realize that where we’re living now in Victoria has been human habitat for thousands and thousands of years,” Turner said. “There are lots of lessons we can learn, I think, from the way people have lived in the past.” [email protected]

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Windsor talk delves into sacred plantsUplands Park home to much historically healing vegetation

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The underground portion of liquorice fern is used to treat coughs and sore throats.

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Irish Rover still calls Oak Bay home


“There was green alligators and long-necked geese,Some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees.Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you’re

born,The loveliest of all was the unicorn.”The Unicorn engages all ages. Sung in diverse locales

from elementary school concerts to rural pubs – often with gestures, though perhaps not the same ones – the

tune spans generations. It seems fitting that the Irish Rovers, who made the famous song, also bring those generations together.

They celebrate five decades of folksy fun that people laugh and dance to despite the, at times, downcast lyrics.

“We’re a family act. We don’t curse, of course, and most of our songs are pretty easy to

understand. Or then again, maybe because of our accent they don’t understand a bloody word we’re saying,” said songwriter and producer George Millar. “It’s just fun music … your toe starts tapping on its own despite the lyrics of a poor Irish patriot hung and drawn and quartered.

“People are singing along and clapping,” he added. “Irish music is just happy.”

That joy is the backbone of five decades of fellowship and fanfare for The Irish Rovers.

“You have to enjoy what you’re doing, and if you don’t, you shouldn’t be doing it. Usually the pressure’s gone after all these years,” he said. “Luckily the band likes each other, we get along well and we like the music. We’ll keep going ‘til we sputter.”

In the midst of their final world tour, the lads return to Vancouver Island to celebrate 50 years with a pair of concerts in Victoria and Nanaimo. One might think they’d retire after five decades, and while the lure of the bed

at home beckons, that’s not the plan, according to Millar, who has homes in Oak Bay and Nanoose.

The lilt of Ireland still in his voice, Millar recalls, “It has been since I was 16 years old.”

“Every year we look back and say ‘maybe we’ll give it one more

year and see how it goes,’” he says. “We’re never sure, we’re booked right now through 2016 … to finish off the American part of the tour.”

It all started in 1964 as they worked their way up to better clubs and a North American circuit starting with Colorado ski resorts that offered worldwide exposure with the amount of global visitors on those slopes.

While 50 years have passed, they’ve carefully crafted little change.

“We haven’t deviated too much … We just stayed doing what we were doing,” Millar said. “When I write [songs] I write them to sound old. They have to have that antiquated sound. We haven’t deviated from our plan of music for all those years, I think that’s why people keep coming back to us.”

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George Millar plays his guitar on the coast of Vancouver Island - the scenery helps inspire him in writing songs.

Hamish Douglas Burgess photo

The Irish Rovers Fred Graham, far left, Geoffrey Kelly, Gerry O’Connor, Morris Crum, George Millar, Ian Millar, Sean O’Driscoll and Wilcil McDowell set sail.

George Miller and his mates celebrate a half century of music with Victoria concert

Did you know?n After more than 25 years since their last television series – they had three spanning 20 years – the band returned to the small screen with two television specials/DVDs in the last few years – Home In Ireland and Irish Rovers Christmas.

Get your ticketsn As they sail through their big 5-0, concert-goers can expect the CD release of The Irish Rovers, 50 Years triple-CD set, available at Island concerts: in Victoria Saturday, March 14, McPherson Playhouse at 7 p.m. and Nanaimo’s Port Theatre on Tuesday, March 17 at 7:30 p.m. (audience may appear on camera). Visit theirishroversmusic.com for ticket info.

No place like homen While he visits Ireland routinely, George Millar and his wife of five years love their Oak Bay home. “I’ve travelled everywhere around this world and this is where we choose to live,” he said. “I really like Oak Bay shopping … Penny Farthing, that’s not a bad place to go,” said Millar. His local home’s back yard hosted a wedding last summer, and has another in the works. “We’re downtown, if we want to be downtown, in 15 minutes.” It’s not even such a bad commute from his second Island waterfront home in Nanoose. “The Malahat doesn’t bother me. It’s a lovely drive,” he said. “Put on an Irish Rovers CD and you’ll fly over.”

PLEASE SEE: The Unicorn unlikely to have been made today, Page A4

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Bureau reveals top 10 scams

Kevin LairdBlack Press

There’s a good chance you or someone you know has or will have a run-in with a scammer this year.

The Better Business Bureau of Vancouver Island works to help consumers avoid scams of all kinds from the door-to-door handyman to telemarketing scams.

This month, the BBB released its annual top 10 scams list.

“There not much of anything new – just a variation of what we’ve seen before, but they’re all scams,” said BBB chief executive officer Rosalind Scott.

The Better Business Bureau logs every scam that it receives throughout the year by phone, email and website.

A new scam to hit the list this year is the trending click bait where scammers use popular or “trending” news and entertainment topics to trick consumers into clicking on fake links to videos, images and posts embedded in social media sites, on websites and emails.

“It usually takes you to a website you don’t want to be at and usually contains malware and viruses. The red flag is there will be a lot of sensational

language around it,” Scott.“You have to be careful and make

sure your newsfeed really is a newsfeed and not just luring you.”

Scott said the best way to avoid a scam is to use common sense. “Nine times out of 10 people actually know that something’s not quite right. They want to believe it so they go for it anyway.”

Mass marketing fraud costs Canadians $10 billion each year, according to the RCMP’s commercial crime branch. The number has been growing steadily since 2007.

The top 10 scams of 2014, according to the Better Business Bureau of Vancouver Island:

n Credit/Loan – When applying online for a personal loan beware of the advance fee scam. Victims are told they must wire money to cover an application fee, and/or to purchase insurance before receiving a financial loan.

n door-to-door Handyman – Beware of suspicious contractors, going door to door, using “limited opportunity” sales tactics and offering too-good-to-be-true verbal deals on home repair opportunities.

n VaCation Prize GiVeaway – Automated phone recordings pretending to come from legitimate airlines, hotels or vacation booking agents lure consumers into believing they are eligible to win a vacation prize.

n ComPuter Virus teLemarketinG – Telemarketers claiming to represent Microsoft contact homeowners to

inform them that their computer has been infected with a virus, which if not solved immediately will result in the computer becoming unusable.

n PHisHinG masquerades – Many computer virus and phishing scams masquerade as the emails or websites of legitimate businesses and organizations.

n Fake debt CoLLeCtion – Beware of telephone calls from scammers claiming to be debt collectors tracking down payment for loans never received or for loans that were received, but for amounts no longer owing.

n unautHorized biLLinG – Both consumers and businesses are finding themselves victims of billing scams in which their credit card statements included minor charges for unknown products or services.

n CounterFeit druGs and HeaLtH ProduCts – Consumers are being lured by too-good-to-be-true print, TV and online advertising for miracle drugs, eye care and health and beauty products.

n direCtory inVoiCe – Local companies are being aggressively targeted via fax and email with a fake invoice that appeared to be for advertising in a popular business directory.

n trendinG CLiCk bait – scammers use popular or “trending” news and entertainment topics to trick consumers into clicking on fake links to videos, images and posts embedded in social media sites, on websites and emails.

Better Business Bureau of Vancouver Island offers advice to help consumers avoid being victimized by fraud

Changes to the industry would perhaps have kept The Unicorn extinct these days.

“Recording techniques have changed. The Unicorn we recorded on an eight-track machine and Glen Campbell played guitar in 1968,” Millar said. “He became an international success after that … he called us his lucky band.”

Then it became No. 2 behind a Beatles tune.

“How did a little song without drum or piano slip onto the music chart?” Millar asked. “I don’t think a thing like that could happen today.”

After decades of touring, now Vegas is calling. The stages of Nevada hold the promise of a place where “we could plunk ourselves down a few weeks at a time,” Millar said, emphasizing that must be a little easier on the back.

Whether Vegas pans out or not, the Irish Rovers will keep a hand in with CDs, DVDs and events like big folk festivals.

“Our fans are still coming out to see us, you don’t have to be a certain age in this career … In Celtic music you can lose a bit of your hair and your belly can come over your belt,” Millar said with a chuckle. “lt’s been a wonderful life. Sounds like a Christmas movie but it’s true, the people have been great. The fans give me a chance to do something I like to do, and at the end of the day I get paid for it too.

“Life is awfully short … you do have to take it by the neck and just go with it. Enjoy it.”

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The Unicorn unlikely to have been made today

“Life is awfully short… you do have to take it by the neck and just go with it. Enjoy it.”

- George Millar

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Ancient fires hold clues for futureTravis PatersonBlack Press

In the wilderness of a remote South Island lake, Kendrick Brown leans over the boat’s edge and drives a hollow tube into the soft lakebed sediment below.

What he pulls out, one metre at a time, is a historical timeline embedded in layers of organic and non-organic matter. It tells him about the past, and helps paint a picture of what’s to come.

“They’re nature’s archives: stratigraphic sequences in the mud that read like pages in a book,” says Brown, a research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service.

“Basically, the same mud that you sink your toes into during a summer swim is the cover of the book, a recording of history of the region based on the matter that has settled into the lake floor.”

Brown’s project team is based out of the Pacific Forestry Centre in Saanich and includes research technician Nicholas Conder, Nicholas Hebda, and University of Victoria co-op student Kiera Smith. While the focus is on the past, the results can help inform about the future.

The team’s current focus is on sediment cores collected from the Greater Victoria Water Supply Area, namely from Begbie Lake and the Sooke Lake Reservoir.

Brown is examining records from these lakes because paleoclimate indicators suggest the past time interval known as the early Holocene (11,700-7,000 years ago) was warmer and drier compared to present-day.

Scientists hope the data may serve as a first-order reference to what future conditions may be like if induced by climate change.

There are models suggesting temperatures in southern B.C. may increase 2 or 3 degrees C by 2100, he said.

Extracting pollen and charcoal fragments from the lake sediment cores allows the team to assess how vegetation and fire disturbance have changed through time in response to “various forcing mechanisms,” Brown said.

“We now have a sense

of how the fire regime has changed in the Sooke Lake Reservoir catchment throughout the Holocene (period) and will be informing the CRD about the natural variability of fire events within the water supply catchment,” he said. “We’re now working to understand how vegetation in the catchment has changed through time, the signal of which is contained in abundant fossil pollen grains in the sediment.”

The forestry scientists have teamed up with the CRD because the regional body needs to know about fire risk to water supply, Brown said.

“We’re using nature’s archives to learn how the land responded to past changes in climate and identifying past periods that might be analogues for the future,” he said.

Are future generations of South Islanders destined to live in a fire-prone region? Not quite, but fire disturbance may increase in the future.

“We need to plan for and protect against this risk. While fire is not a common form of disturbance today, it was more prevalent in the past,” Brown said.

That plan is still a few years off. The team is hoping to produce an initial report of findings by the end of 2016.

Travis Paterson/Black Press

Dr. Kendrick Brown of the Pacific Forestry Centre points to a two-centimetre layer of 7,700-year-old volcanic ash from Oregon’s Mt. Mazama, found in a core sample from nearby Begbie Lake.

Getting down to itn Brown’s team use a Livingstone corer to reach lake sediment depths of up to 10 metres, sometimes more. The deeper the corer goes, the older the sediment.

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Bureau reveals top 10 scams

Kevin LairdBlack Press

There’s a good chance you or someone you know has or will have a run-in with a scammer this year.

The Better Business Bureau of Vancouver Island works to help consumers avoid scams of all kinds from the door-to-door handyman to telemarketing scams.

This month, the BBB released its annual top 10 scams list.

“There not much of anything new – just a variation of what we’ve seen before, but they’re all scams,” said BBB chief executive officer Rosalind Scott.

The Better Business Bureau logs every scam that it receives throughout the year by phone, email and website.

A new scam to hit the list this year is the trending click bait where scammers use popular or “trending” news and entertainment topics to trick consumers into clicking on fake links to videos, images and posts embedded in social media sites, on websites and emails.

“It usually takes you to a website you don’t want to be at and usually contains malware and viruses. The red flag is there will be a lot of sensational

language around it,” Scott.“You have to be careful and make

sure your newsfeed really is a newsfeed and not just luring you.”

Scott said the best way to avoid a scam is to use common sense. “Nine times out of 10 people actually know that something’s not quite right. They want to believe it so they go for it anyway.”

Mass marketing fraud costs Canadians $10 billion each year, according to the RCMP’s commercial crime branch. The number has been growing steadily since 2007.

The top 10 scams of 2014, according to the Better Business Bureau of Vancouver Island:

n Credit/Loan – When applying online for a personal loan beware of the advance fee scam. Victims are told they must wire money to cover an application fee, and/or to purchase insurance before receiving a financial loan.

n door-to-door Handyman – Beware of suspicious contractors, going door to door, using “limited opportunity” sales tactics and offering too-good-to-be-true verbal deals on home repair opportunities.

n VaCation Prize GiVeaway – Automated phone recordings pretending to come from legitimate airlines, hotels or vacation booking agents lure consumers into believing they are eligible to win a vacation prize.

n ComPuter Virus teLemarketinG – Telemarketers claiming to represent Microsoft contact homeowners to

inform them that their computer has been infected with a virus, which if not solved immediately will result in the computer becoming unusable.

n PHisHinG masquerades – Many computer virus and phishing scams masquerade as the emails or websites of legitimate businesses and organizations.

n Fake debt CoLLeCtion – Beware of telephone calls from scammers claiming to be debt collectors tracking down payment for loans never received or for loans that were received, but for amounts no longer owing.

n unautHorized biLLinG – Both consumers and businesses are finding themselves victims of billing scams in which their credit card statements included minor charges for unknown products or services.

n CounterFeit druGs and HeaLtH ProduCts – Consumers are being lured by too-good-to-be-true print, TV and online advertising for miracle drugs, eye care and health and beauty products.

n direCtory inVoiCe – Local companies are being aggressively targeted via fax and email with a fake invoice that appeared to be for advertising in a popular business directory.

n trendinG CLiCk bait – scammers use popular or “trending” news and entertainment topics to trick consumers into clicking on fake links to videos, images and posts embedded in social media sites, on websites and emails.

Better Business Bureau of Vancouver Island offers advice to help consumers avoid being victimized by fraud

Changes to the industry would perhaps have kept The Unicorn extinct these days.

“Recording techniques have changed. The Unicorn we recorded on an eight-track machine and Glen Campbell played guitar in 1968,” Millar said. “He became an international success after that … he called us his lucky band.”

Then it became No. 2 behind a Beatles tune.

“How did a little song without drum or piano slip onto the music chart?” Millar asked. “I don’t think a thing like that could happen today.”

After decades of touring, now Vegas is calling. The stages of Nevada hold the promise of a place where “we could plunk ourselves down a few weeks at a time,” Millar said, emphasizing that must be a little easier on the back.

Whether Vegas pans out or not, the Irish Rovers will keep a hand in with CDs, DVDs and events like big folk festivals.

“Our fans are still coming out to see us, you don’t have to be a certain age in this career … In Celtic music you can lose a bit of your hair and your belly can come over your belt,” Millar said with a chuckle. “lt’s been a wonderful life. Sounds like a Christmas movie but it’s true, the people have been great. The fans give me a chance to do something I like to do, and at the end of the day I get paid for it too.

“Life is awfully short … you do have to take it by the neck and just go with it. Enjoy it.”

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The Unicorn unlikely to have been made today

“Life is awfully short… you do have to take it by the neck and just go with it. Enjoy it.”

- George Millar

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2009

OUR VIEW

Premier Christy Clark’s push to “re-engineer” the B.C. education system is moving ahead aggressively in B.C.’s 25 post-secondary institutions.

One of the first tasks for Andrew Wilkinson in his new role as advanced education minister was to outline the shift in operating grants for colleges and universities to in-demand occupations. By 2017, a quarter of the money for post-secondary institutions will be directed to areas where labour force surveys forecast a need.

This was greeted with some alarm when it was announced last year. Simon Fraser University president Andrew Petter at first downplayed the coming skills shortage as “relatively small” and warned against pushing post-secondary institutions into a “zero sum battle for dollars.”

Petter has since come on board, as his approving comments were featured in the ministry’s Jan. 26 news release detailing the shift. He and others have been assured that in spite of Clark’s rhetoric, suggesting trades training is in and university is out, the news for SFU and other universities isn’t all that bleak.

Wilkinson is completing a provincewide tour of all post-secondary institutions this week, and I reached him at his visit to Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops.

“The response to this has generally been pretty good, because the students are putting this pressure on institutions

themselves,” he said. “Some of the institutions are … shrinking things like teacher education and putting more effort into the science-based, quantitative fields that are often related to these in-demand occupations.”

The surplus of teacher graduates has been noticeable for some time, but that’s largely a function of

oversupply, much of it in urban areas. In the Cariboo, for example, teaching jobs are projected to have the highest number of openings by 2022, followed by nursing and retail and wholesale trade managers. Then come heavy duty mechanics and electricians, but also paraprofessional jobs in legal, social, community and educational services.

Provincewide, it’s part of a broader demographic shift to fewer children and more retirees. In fact, the government started this targeted funding a decade ago with health care, forcing universities to produce more doctors, nurses, lab techs and so forth.

The retiring baby boom is expected to account for more than half of the openings in the next decade, which will expand the skills demand across most fields, beyond the trades training for the

anticipated liquefied natural gas industry and other high-demand industrial areas such as truck driving.

Wilkinson notes that of the ministry’s $1.9 billion budget, about 60 per cent goes into general post-secondary education, for introductory courses that students take when they are seeking a career path, through undergraduate studies to professions.

“So I think the idea that we’re going to somehow minimize or diminish funding in that general education, arts and science category is just not true,” he said.

Key to this shift is measuring the performance of courses offered at colleges, universities and technical schools. Each year, the ministry surveys about 30,000 graduates to find out whether their studies helped them find a related job.

The results are available on a website that breaks them out by institution and general study area. To find it, do a web search for “BC student outcomes” and select the “executive dashboard” to check the results for courses and schools in your region.

The site provides charts showing the percentage of students who land relevant jobs. Not surprisingly, it tends to be higher for technical programs and lower for fine arts.

It also shows grads’ average wages, a sobering but useful bit of information for high school students and their parents.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Post-secondary ‘re-engineering’ begins

B.C.’s great outdoorsgetting out of reach

Camping fees, like everything else (MSP, Hydro, ICBC), are going up.

The Liberal government has announced that, as of March 15, fees to camp in provincial parks will increase $2 to $5. That might not sound like much, but it’s going to cost $35 a night to

sleep on the ground in Goldstream Provincial Park. Over a long weekend, that would total $105.

Add on the cost of travel, food and other

necessities, and camping is no longer a cheap option for young families, or young adults working minimum-wage jobs.

According to the Ministry of Environment, this is the first provincewide increase in camping fees since 2010. The varied rate increases take into account local demand and economic conditions, as well as private camping availability.

The province collected about $17 million from its park and recreation fees last year, while spending $22 million on direct park operating costs.

Meanwhile, campsite use is on the rise in B.C. since the introduction of an online reservation service. Discover Camping handled 133,000 reservations last year, nearly a 10 per cent increase over 2013.

We understand that parks take money to operate and maintain, and that pay parking was an unpopular experiment. But camping is about the least expensive vacation opportunity, and squeezing residents for more money just when gas prices have begun to decline comes off as a cash grab.

Campgrounds get families outdoors, together. They are where kids learn to respect nature, to start a fire, where they chop wood and swim in the lake, roast marshmallows and gaze at the stars.

Camping used to be something everyone could afford, whether it’s the locals looking to get away for a few days or the tourists, who are likely to spend their money in nearby towns.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

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EDITORIAL Penny Sakamoto Group PublisherDan Ebenal Editor Oliver Sommer Advertising Director

The OAK BAY NEWS is published by Black Press Ltd. | 207A-2187 Oak Bay Ave., Oak Bay, B.C. V8R 1G1 | Phone: 250-598-4123 • Web: oakbaynews.com

OAK BAYNEWS

The OAK BAY NEWS is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council.

Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: [email protected] or fax 250-386-2624. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification.

2009

OUR VIEW

Premier Christy Clark’s push to “re-engineer” the B.C. education system is moving ahead aggressively in B.C.’s 25 post-secondary institutions.

One of the first tasks for Andrew Wilkinson in his new role as advanced education minister was to outline the shift in operating grants for colleges and universities to in-demand occupations. By 2017, a quarter of the money for post-secondary institutions will be directed to areas where labour force surveys forecast a need.

This was greeted with some alarm when it was announced last year. Simon Fraser University president Andrew Petter at first downplayed the coming skills shortage as “relatively small” and warned against pushing post-secondary institutions into a “zero sum battle for dollars.”

Petter has since come on board, as his approving comments were featured in the ministry’s Jan. 26 news release detailing the shift. He and others have been assured that in spite of Clark’s rhetoric, suggesting trades training is in and university is out, the news for SFU and other universities isn’t all that bleak.

Wilkinson is completing a provincewide tour of all post-secondary institutions this week, and I reached him at his visit to Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops.

“The response to this has generally been pretty good, because the students are putting this pressure on institutions

themselves,” he said. “Some of the institutions are … shrinking things like teacher education and putting more effort into the science-based, quantitative fields that are often related to these in-demand occupations.”

The surplus of teacher graduates has been noticeable for some time, but that’s largely a function of

oversupply, much of it in urban areas. In the Cariboo, for example, teaching jobs are projected to have the highest number of openings by 2022, followed by nursing and retail and wholesale trade managers. Then come heavy duty mechanics and electricians, but also paraprofessional jobs in legal, social, community and educational services.

Provincewide, it’s part of a broader demographic shift to fewer children and more retirees. In fact, the government started this targeted funding a decade ago with health care, forcing universities to produce more doctors, nurses, lab techs and so forth.

The retiring baby boom is expected to account for more than half of the openings in the next decade, which will expand the skills demand across most fields, beyond the trades training for the

anticipated liquefied natural gas industry and other high-demand industrial areas such as truck driving.

Wilkinson notes that of the ministry’s $1.9 billion budget, about 60 per cent goes into general post-secondary education, for introductory courses that students take when they are seeking a career path, through undergraduate studies to professions.

“So I think the idea that we’re going to somehow minimize or diminish funding in that general education, arts and science category is just not true,” he said.

Key to this shift is measuring the performance of courses offered at colleges, universities and technical schools. Each year, the ministry surveys about 30,000 graduates to find out whether their studies helped them find a related job.

The results are available on a website that breaks them out by institution and general study area. To find it, do a web search for “BC student outcomes” and select the “executive dashboard” to check the results for courses and schools in your region.

The site provides charts showing the percentage of students who land relevant jobs. Not surprisingly, it tends to be higher for technical programs and lower for fine arts.

It also shows grads’ average wages, a sobering but useful bit of information for high school students and their parents.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Post-secondary ‘re-engineering’ begins

B.C.’s great outdoorsgetting out of reach

Camping fees, like everything else (MSP, Hydro, ICBC), are going up.

The Liberal government has announced that, as of March 15, fees to camp in provincial parks will increase $2 to $5. That might not sound like much, but it’s going to cost $35 a night to

sleep on the ground in Goldstream Provincial Park. Over a long weekend, that would total $105.

Add on the cost of travel, food and other

necessities, and camping is no longer a cheap option for young families, or young adults working minimum-wage jobs.

According to the Ministry of Environment, this is the first provincewide increase in camping fees since 2010. The varied rate increases take into account local demand and economic conditions, as well as private camping availability.

The province collected about $17 million from its park and recreation fees last year, while spending $22 million on direct park operating costs.

Meanwhile, campsite use is on the rise in B.C. since the introduction of an online reservation service. Discover Camping handled 133,000 reservations last year, nearly a 10 per cent increase over 2013.

We understand that parks take money to operate and maintain, and that pay parking was an unpopular experiment. But camping is about the least expensive vacation opportunity, and squeezing residents for more money just when gas prices have begun to decline comes off as a cash grab.

Campgrounds get families outdoors, together. They are where kids learn to respect nature, to start a fire, where they chop wood and swim in the lake, roast marshmallows and gaze at the stars.

Camping used to be something everyone could afford, whether it’s the locals looking to get away for a few days or the tourists, who are likely to spend their money in nearby towns.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

Rising fees make B.C. campsites less accessible


LETTERSResidents association provides input on OCP

The new Oak Bay Official Community Plan (found on the municipal website www.oakbay.ca) contains many recommendations which if implemented would change many aspects of Oak Bay, including the housing types allowed in various neighbourhoods.

To promote openness, transparency and maximum community involvement throughout the activities of all committees tasked with implementation of the Official Community Plan (OCP) the North Henderson Residents’ Association (NHRA) asks Oak Bay council that:

Committee memberships reflect all geographic

regions of Oak Bay, including North Henderson;Residents of all regions receive an opportunity to

apply for membership on one or more committees;All committees produce timely as well as detailed

minutes with recorded votes rather than edited “process notes” to record the essence of discussions and all decisions;

Meeting announcements, times, locations and agendas be widely distributed in a timely manner;

All documents used by the committees be made available to the public prior to applicable committee meetings;

The method and format for public correspondence with committee members (as well as the public correspondence itself) be posted on the municipal website;

Committee members be identified along with the neighbourhood where they live;

The community be able to comment verbally and/or in writing on all committees’ terms of reference; and,

Committee proceedings be broadcast by the municipality.

Mike Wilmut, presidentNorth Henderson Residents’ Association

Deer are a nuisanceI am all in favour of culling the deer. I

did not move into Oak Bay 35 years ago to be held hostage by marauding deer destroying my vegetables and plants and I did not move here to live behind wire cages to protect me, my garden and my neighbours from roaming herds of deer.

Oak Bay was a better place with fewer deer. Thanks to our mayor and council it will again be a better place, after the deer cull. I’d be happy to see the occasional deer in my neighbourhood rather than have an occasional day when I don’t see any deer.

Chris FoordOak Bay

Nature under attackHere in the upscale, sleepy, seaside

hamlet of Oak Bay, strange things are about to happen. The peaceful co-existence we have enjoyed with nature is about to be destroyed. On Jan. 30, the B.C. SPCA commented very negatively on the savage deer cull that is now scheduled in the place I call home.

The silence in the mainstream media is deafening. The press release (with a link below) appears absolutely nowhere. So in the public interest, I provide it to all of you who are reading this: www.spca.bc.ca/news-and-events/news/news-oak-bay-deer-cull.html.

Danalee GoldthwaiteOak Bay

RFP wording far from humaneOak Bay’s Request for Proposal (RFP)

in the deer cull project dated Dec. 5, 2014, outlines various protocols and contingency scenarios for the cull contractor(s).

Of greatest concern in the RFP is the final scenario: “A misfire occurs with the bolt gun/the shot is not fatal”. The district’s recommendation is for the: “Contractor to reload and reshoot quickly; If a misfires occurs, contractor to either

reload and adjust impact location or utilize exsanguination.”

In other words, if all else fails let the deer bleed to death. Mayor Jensen has steadfastily stated that the cull/kill will be humane. Letting a conscious animal bleed out is not humane and very cruel, despite what he claims to think.

David RobertsonOak Bay

The other side of the storyRe Oak Bay secures permit for deer cull,

Jan. 29.It is unfortunate that this unbalanced

story presented Helen Schwantje’s views as unchallengeable facts. The residents of Oak Bay, whether they are for or against the cull, deserve to know they are being misled.

If this cull is as necessary and humane as Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen and Dr. Schwantje would have us believe, then why is the BC SPCA – the independent provincial authority on the humane treatment of animals – repeatedly expressing its strong opposition? In a Jan. 30 letter to the mayor, CEO Craig Daniell says “the proposed actions constitute an indiscriminate cull that is not a sustainable or evidence-based solution for managing deer in this area.” The letter goes on to say that culls in other B.C. municipalities have not eliminated local human-deer conflicts, that the regional deer management strategy process that led to this decision is “fatally flawed,” that residents of Oak Bay have not been appropriately consulted on their wishes and that the non-lethal conflict-reduction program has not been thorough. That’s pretty damning, and it’s all true.

As for the method of culling, once a deer is caught in the clover trap, the trap is collapsed, a man throws his body weight onto the trapped animal while another man stuns the deer with a bolt shot into its head. The deer’s throat is slit and the animal bleeds to death. Dr. Schwantje describes it as “a very quick process, in

fact it’s been done in under 30 seconds.” It would be rare for an animal to bleed to

death in 30 seconds. This is why the B.C. SPCA is warning Oak Bay that “bleeding out of a conscious animal is not considered humane or a generally accepted practice and is grounds for a cruelty investigation under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.”

In your story, Dr. Schwantje describes the Oak Bay deer cull as ‘euthanasia.’ The cull is not euthanasia; it is the inhumane and unnecessary slaughter for political gain and to satisfy a small but vocal number of residents.

Kerri WardOak Bay

Carry on with cullBravo to our mayor and council for

pressing on with the deer cull in the face of the usual shrill and emotional opposition. We voted for Mr. Jensen primarily because of his policy of support for the cull.

My wife and I as well as some of our neighbours have frequently been followed by deer while walking our dogs in the neighbourhood. In our experience the females tend to be more aggressive – especially when accompanied by their fawns.

On one occasion our elderly neighbour was forced to shelter in a garage on Falkland Avenue to avoid a potentially nasty incident involving an aggressive doe (with fawn) who was then chased away by a roofing crew. These incidents were mainly during daylight hours. When I take my dog out in the late evening I see deer almost every time and am now carrying an air horn for self protection.

When we returned to Oak Bay in 1993 there were no deer encounters – indeed I don’t remember even seeing deer here until about 10 years ago. So much for the claims that we humans have displaced the critters. They are here only because of the abundant food supply and lack of predators. (The lack of predators may be changing as there have been cougar

sightings on Dennison Road and Beach Drive/King George Terrace.)

Press on Mr. Mayor.Steen Jessen

Oak Bay

Story continues to growThe Oak Bay deer cull seems to be

reaching world-wide infamy. There have been so many twisted stories, inaccurate statistics and a complete lack of transparency by both Oak Bay and the provincial government that this has become one large fiasco.

And now, according to a letter in the Oak Bay News, people who had planned to visit Oak Bay are bowing out and advising their friends to do so as well. The mayor of Oak Bay seems to be so intent on a cull yet the opposition to it is growing. Stories about inhumane procedures and secrecy on the part of the mayor are rampant.

Friends in Toronto and Montreal are following the story in the media as if it were a soap opera, but with dire consequences to the deer. This is a quickly growing story but one which I believe will end in political disaster. It is unfortunate that the deer have to die to prove the point.

David SellersVictoria

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Letters to the Editor

Accolades out of place

News of Oak Bay Beach Hotel’s awards “success”, would be hilarious were it not a downright farce.

Just how can any business venture fail so badly and then at the flick of a switch, receive accolades for excellence? An

oxymoron if ever I saw one.

All that fanciful anticipating and exceeding of guest’s.needs (chocolate covered strawberries, romantic carpets of rose petals, fresh flowers every day, plush towels, 24/7 swimming) along with all the other paraphernalia needed for going (and I

quote) “way above and beyond” is all very well, provided you can afford to pay those who supply what is needed to make these things happen.

It’s understand-able that some visitors “feel the whole place is yours” because in the case of some visiting suppliers, what they saw possibly was still

theirs. Furthermore, it is ridiculous for manager Le Sage to say “it’s such a success story around here” when in fact, the financial history of the Oak Bay business has such a cataclysmic history of failure from day one.

She is also quoted as saying “The hotel went into receivership late last year and has maintained its business as usual since.” Well I bet suppliers are hoping for something better than that ... with or without TripAdvisor awards.

Still, I suppose there are always those 1,600 bottles in the tasting room.

Derrick JohnsOak Bay

No excuse for cull

In a recent front page story in the Times Colonist, the mayor of Oak Bay in his defence of having a deer cull again showed concern for children being afraid to play in their yards and deer feces in the parks.

Mr. Mayor your excuses are worn out and weak. My grandchildren play in my yard often with neighbouring children who are almost always out in their yards. Do their parents keep them in because a deer might appear? They think that excuse is really inane.

I walk my dogs in Uplands Park and occasionally Windsor Park, and deer feces? Get a grip please, sir.

There are piles of dog poop in Uplands Park and yet the deer poop is more of a concern.

You also mentioned two dog attacks by deer. That is horrific to your way of thinking. My neighbour’s cat was struck and killed by a car. But then maybe it was a deer.

We voted for the mayor twice now and this term for four of the six sitting councillors based on common sense, but we sure were fooled. It will a long time before the next election but we know whom we will not vote for.

Dorothy RogersOak Bay

Mayor should admit mistake

The mayor of Oak Bay is so obsessed with the deer cull he is not even willing to respond to the SPCA’s proposal which would ensure the cull is humane.

In Oak Bay’ Request For Proposals they state that if the bolt gun misfires it is OK to let the deer bleed out. In other words, bleed to death. If this is what the mayor calls humane, I would hate to see his version of inhumane.

The cull will be held in secrecy, which only makes the chance of it being inhumane more obvious. With so many intelligent groups and persons opposing the cull for many very valid reasons, the mayor should admit he made a mistake and rethink it.

P.G. FarnsworthOak Bay


LETTERSCull sets a bad example for the children

After reading the recent cover story in the Oak Bay News and a feature article in the Globe and Mail, I feel quite sickened by the senseless killing of deer in Oak Bay. In fact, I feel ashamed to be a resident of Oak Bay.

Initially, following our municipal election, I thought, sadly, that this cull was a done deal with Mayor Nils Jensen’s election. I have recently learned that there is still time for a change, if enough people speak out. And apparently, Oak Bay council has not done its due diligence in this process, neglecting the requirement for a survey and concrete scientific data. Contrary to Ms. Schwtje’s assurances in your recent cover story, these deer will not be culled “humanely” and their suffering

will last well beyond 30 seconds. Our family moved across the country

to live in Victoria and specifically in Oak Bay, nearly seven years ago. It was important to us to raise our child in a place of such natural beauty and balance. My sense is that this has been a draw for many others. Living in such a natural environment requires respecting it. What will this cull and negligent process that the mayor is leading teach our children?

The deer are a part of this landscape, along with other creatures. If this cull proceeds, where will the insanity end? Will certain residents and our mayor tackle the birds that deficate in the prized gardens? And then there are those who find off-leash dogs and owls

bothersome too. Perhaps resources could be wisely spent: reducing the 50 km/h speed limit on most residential streets and adding better lighting on our streets.

We, along with reputable scientists and others who see through the charade of this cull, believe that the Oak Bay mayor is fear-mongering. It’s a sad day when something like this can happen. I am now looking into what we can do to stop this cull (or at least fill out a survey) and ask other residents – and members of council – to consider the unique natural beauty of this place and the kind of community we want to be.

J. Anka & familyOak Bay


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Dan EbenalNews Staff

Spending a week in February in Prince George may not be at a lot of people’s to-do list, but for Oak Bay’s Alisa Lyesina there’s nowhere else she’d rather be.

Lyesina will be representing B.C. in the pre-novice women figure skating competition at the Canada Winter Games this month in Prince George.

“I’m really excited,” said the 13-year-old.

She said this will be her toughest competition yet but she’s confident she has a good chance of reaching the podium.

“I’ve been skating really good lately and if I can skate at the competition the way I’ve been practising I think I have a good chance.”

Lyesina finished fourth at the provincials last fall, earning a spot at the Western Canadian Challenge where she also

posted a strong showing. But it was on the video monitor that Lyesina secured her spot on Team B.C. for the Games.

“They had a kind of interesting process,” Lyesina’s coach Jamie McGrigor says of the way they selected the two pre-novice skaters for Team B.C.

The three skaters being considered for the team were videotaped performing their programs at home, with the selection committee meeting Jan. 27 in Vancouver to hold a virtual competition.

“That’s the first time we’ve actually done that,” said McGrigor, adding that technology has reduced the need for judges to be at the rink.

“It’s a good way to do it because you’re getting the one that’s got the hot hand right now.”

The committee selected Lyesina along with Olivia Gran of Kelowna.

“Maybe I’m prejudiced because I coach her, but I think she was the obvious choice,” said McGrigor.

Lyesina will leave for Prince George Feb. 21 to take part in the Games that run until March

1, and McGrigor is confident in her chances of bringing home a medal.

“She is one of the best, if not the best, pre-novice lady in Canada,” said McGrigor, calling both Lyesina and Gran amazing skaters. “There’s a possibility for both those girls to be on the podium.”

McGrigor said Lyesina is a gifted short program skater, pointing to her triple jumps as one of her strengths.

“She actually has two different ones, that’s pretty extraordinary in itself. She does them full speed and they’re huge and she attacks with a vengeance,” he said. “When she’s hitting her stuff it’s kind of awe inspiring.”

Lyesina has been heading over to the rink five times a week, saying she’s been practising getting her triples consistent and working to be able to land both during her long program.

“I think if I can stay relaxed and not overthink things” Lyesina believes she has a good chance at a medal. “And if I make a mistake I just need to move on and not let it get to my head.”

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Canada’s top U-17 male prospects are gathering Feb. 27 for a one-week development camp at Shawnigan Lake School and Rugby Canada’s Centre of Excellence.

Coaches Dean Murten, Canada U17 Men – West and Andy Plimer of Canada U17 Men – East, each selected 28 athletes from their respective assessment camps in the fall.

Eight members of the Castaway Wanderers made the U-17 West roster: Oak Bay High students Jonah Hall, Gavin Kratz, Callum Masterson, Brandon Schellenberger, Brayden Tate and Carter White along with Jonas Robinson of Saint Michaels University School, and Brennig Prevost, who attends Glenlyon Norfolk School.

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Alisa Lyesina shows off the skills that earned her a spot on Team B.C. at this month’s Canada Winter Games in Prince George.


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When Richard Larkin decided to start up a yard care company, going green seemed to be a natural fit.

After learning the yard care industry is responsible for five per cent of Canada’s air pollution, Larkin decided to start up Clean Air Yard Care in Saanich five years

ago. The rapid success enjoyed by the solar-powered landscaping company prompted Larkin to add a second truck and crew specifically to handle the Oak Bay/Gordon Head area.

All the equipment used by Clean Air Yard Care – from the mowers to the trimmers, from leaf blowers to chainsaws – runs on lithium batteries that can be charged using the solar panels on the roof of the company’s custom-built trailers. Even the truck that pulls the trailer is a hybrid electric vehicle.

“We can plug in all the batteries and while we driving or parked anywhere, this stuff is charging all the time,” said Larkin, adding the lithium batteries will run for an hour on just a half-hour charging time. “And we’ve got spares on the go so we never run out of power.”

While reducing the impact to the environment was the primary reason Larkin started the business, he quickly discovered an added benefit when he noticed how quiet everything was.

“The lithium-battery powered equipment runs significantly quieter, sometimes by as much as half of the

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was noticed not only by customers but also his workers, who no longer have to wear earmuffs or don a mask when filling up the equipment with gas.

Larkin said the business is enjoying continued growth. “Once people switch to the clean-air concept, they don’t go back. They don’t want to go back to the noise and the smell.”

That success has Larkin planning to eventually take his business model to other markets on the Island as well as the Lower Mainland.

“We’re still tightening up all the business systems and making sure we’ve got everything running smoothly. The goal is to upset the landscape industry, kind of turn it on its ear and show that we can do just as good a job without all the pollution and the noise.”

Larkin believes the green model is the way of the future for the landscaping industry.

“I think it’s just a matter of time, I think five or 10 years from now a landscaping company using gas and oil will be the old school.”[email protected]

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Although the scenes in Lion in the Streets happen in an ethnic urban neighbourhood of Toronto, the play will bring its UVic audience to a place somewhere between reality and dreams, memories and fantasies.

A lost Portuguese girl wanders, frightened and looking for answers, witnessing a series of dark moments in the intertwined and troubled lives of several strangers in her community. As Isobel watches these strangers try to hold on to their own humanity, she finds understanding, forgiveness and ultimately redemption.

With an extensive history devising new work for the stage, director Conrad Alexandrowicz wants to take a similar approach to this Canadian masterpiece, which is often produced in a university context. Teaming up with designer Allan Stichbury, the pair decided that rather than designing the world of the play in advance and placing the actors into it, they would collaborate with the acting ensemble to develop the design elements around the actors’ movements. The shape and function of chairs

and other props are being decided during rehearsals.

“This is a process that’s often used in devising new theatre works,” said Stichbury. “It’s important pedagogically for our students to study different approaches to play design and development.”

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Thompson in a recent series of conversations between the director and the playwright. Alexandrowicz has a BFA in dance from York University and an MFA in directing from the University of Alberta, and is also the founding artistic director of Wild Excursions Performance. This spring he devised, created and presented

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Single tickets: $14 student/$20 senior/$24 adult. See the full schedule at phoenixtheatres.ca (where lectures are also podcast) or call the box office at 250-721-8000.

Upstairs Lounge brings back the funkChristine van ReeuwykNews Staff

Funk returns to the Upstairs Lounge when Groove Kitchen makes its second appearance.

Oak Bay Tea Party 2014 headliners debuted at the rec centre space in October, offering their brand of soul from James Brown and the Neville Brothers to Bruno Mars and Nelly.

“I think the venue is a real discovery – a hidden gem,” said keyboardist Adrian Chamberlain, of the band’s inaugural performance at Upstairs Lounge. “It’s

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The Victoria-based band also features David Anderson on guitar and vocals, Pedro Arbour on drums, Steve Moyer on bass and Eric Hughes on saxophone.

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Last year Victoria General Hospital’s emergency department cared for more than 51,000 people, including 11,500 children under 17. It’s also the adult and pediatric trauma centre for the Island.

To continue the excellent work they do every day, the ward needs new vital signs monitors, so the Victoria Hospitals Foundation has teamed up with the Victoria Royals to help make that happen.

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“Everyone benefits when we have access to high-quality health care,” says Gord Macatee, board chair of the foundation. “Working alongside groups like the Victoria Royals helps bring atten-tion to the needs in our hospitals and emphasizes that a gift to health care is a gift to all members of our community.”

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Royals team up with hospitals foundationTickets for Feb. 21 game will raise funds for much-needed equipment

ICBC frauds include fires, faked crashesTom FletcherBlack Press

If you’ve ever had a car insurance claim greeted with suspicion by ICBC, there are a few hundred reasons for that attitude.

B.C.’s basic car insurance monopoly has released a report on fraud attempts from 2014, part of an estimated 10 to 15 per cent of insurance claims it says involve fraud or exaggeration. During the year, ICBC investigators referred 131 cases to Crown prosecutors for charges, with convictions in nine out of 10 of them.

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EXP. RELIABLE & effi cient house cleaner and home care, 10 yrs exp. $20/hr. Bondable, have own supplies except vacuum.(250)220-4965

DRYWALL

BEAT MY Price! Best work-manship. 38 years experience. Call Mike, 250-475-0542.

ELECTRICAL

250-361-6193 Quality Electric Reno’s, res & comm. No job too small. Lic# 22779.

KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Company. #86952. Call Ken-dra, 250-415-7991.

NORTHERN SUN Electric Comm/Res. $40/hr. Work Guaranteed. Any size job. (250)888-6160. Lic#13981.

FENCING

ALL TYPES of fencing, re-pairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637.


FRAMING

FRAMING & FOUNDATION crew available. Call (250)361-6348.

GARDENING

DPM SERVICES- lawn & gar-den, seasonal pruning, clean ups, landscape, power wash, etc. 15yrs exp. (250)883-8141.

I AM looking for up to 5 more customers for regular lawn cuts. Full service yard care and clean-ups avail. Please call Chris (250)858-2055.


GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

ABBA EXTERIORSProfessional gutter cleaning & repairs. Window cleaning. Roof de-mossing. Pkg dis-counts. WCB. (778)433-9275.

(250)889-5794. DIAMOND Dave- window, gutter cleaning, roof-de-moss, gutter guards, power washing. Free est.

GRAND XTERIOR Cleaning & Repairs- Gutters, roofs win-dows, PW. 250-380-7778.

HANDYPERSONS

BIG BEAR Handyman. Decks, Painting, Repairs. Free estimate. Barry 250-896-6071.

HAULING AND SALVAGE

$20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279.

CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all. Call 250-361-6164.

GARY’S HAULING. One call does it all. Small demos & yard clean-up. Vehicle & metal recycling. Call (778)966-1413.


HAULING AND SALVAGE

JUNK BOX- Junk Removal Company. Local guys. Low rates. Call (250)658-3944.

JUNK REMOVAL 7 days / wk.Fast Service, Best Prices!! Free quotes. (250)857-JUNK.

PARRY’S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Wes 250-812-7774.

PETE’S HAUL A DAY- Junk removal. Airforce guy. Call 250-888-1221.

SAVE-A-LOT HAULING Furniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount. Brad 250-217-9578.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

FULL SERVICE Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1-800-573-2928.


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Done Right Moving $85/hr. Senior Disc. No travel time before/after local moves. BBB. Call Tyler 250-418-1747.

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OLD TIMER. Quality old fash-ioned service. Great rates. Ex-cellent references. Call Al at 250-474-6924, 250-888-7187.

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PATCHES,Drywall, skimming, match the textures, coves, fi re-places. Bob, 250-516-5178.

PRESSURE WASHING

DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates. 250-744-8588, Norm.

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Wednesday, Feb. 11Monterey middle

school is accepting applications for the 2015 -16 school year. An informal drop-in to Grade 6 and exploratory classes, arrive anytime between 10.30 a.m. and noon at 851 Monterey Ave. 250-598-4589.

Friday, Feb. 13Soprano Lambroula

Pappas performs with the Palm Court Light Orchestra, performing arias from La Boheme and Tosca, 7:30 p.m. at UVic Centre. Call 250-721-8480 for tickets.

Victoria Chamber Orchestra presents a Beethoven concert at First Metropolitan Church, 932 Balmoral Rd., 8 p.m. Tickets available at victoriachamber orchestra.org.

Drop-in Family Storytime from 10:30-11 a.m. at the Oak Bay branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, 1442 Monterey Ave.

Saturday, Feb. 14Volkssport 5/10

km walk. Meet at

Esquimalt Recreation Centre, 527 Fraser St. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact is Hazel at 250-385-5439.

Sunday, Feb. 15Volkssport 5/10 km

walk. Meet at Pearkes Recreation Centre, 3100 Tillicum Rd. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact is Joan or Gord at 250-479-6512.

Monday, Feb. 16Norman Foote and

Big Voice Orchestra at McPherson Playhouse, 3 Centennial Square, 7 p.m. Info: 250-386-6121.

All voices can sing – all voices welcome. The Getting Higher Choir welcomes new singers Feb. 16 and 23. Come and check us out. You audition us, we don’t audition you. For full details visit: www.gettinhigherchoir.ca/choir_life or call 250-920-4160.

Drop in baby time from 10:30 to 11 a.m. for babies 0-15 months and their caregiver. Learn songs, rhymes and fingerplays to use with your baby every

day. No registration required at the Oak Bay branch of the GVPL, 1442 Monterey Ave.

Tuesday, Feb. 17Drop in Toddler time,

for youngsters 16-35 months and their caregiver. Toddler-terrific stories, songs, rhymes and puppets. No registration required. Starts 10:30 a.m. at the Oak Bay branch of the GVPL, 1442 Monterey Ave.

Volkssport 5/10 km walk. Meet at Running Room, Broadmead Shopping Centre, 777 Royal Oak Drive. Registration 5:45 p.m.; walk 6 p.m. Contact is

Gail at 250-477-4472.

Thursday, Feb. 19A Glittery Affair.

Tickets on sale now at 1442 Monterey Ave. for an evening of sparkling elegance, a delicious dinner, dance demonstration and your chance to dance with the stars (of Monterey) to the wonderful sounds of the Bob Morrison Orchestra.

Friday, Feb. 20Drop-in Family

Storytime from 10:30-11 a.m. at the Oak Bay branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, 1442 Monterey Ave.

Saturday, Feb. 21Golden Gavel Novice

Speakers Competition. New Horizons Seniors Centre, 234 Menzies St., 7 p.m. Info: goldengavel.ca.

Seedy Saturday, Victoria’s seed and garden show, hosted by the James Bay Market Society, Victoria Conference Centre, 720 Douglas St., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Info: jamesbaymarket.com/seedysaturday or phone 250-381-5323.

Volkssport 5/10 km walk. Meet at Cedar Hill Recreation Centre, 3220 Cedar Hill Rd. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact is Judy at 250-385-8519.

Sunday, Feb. 22Enjoy a medley of

toe-tapping, wildly rhythmical Klezmer music, lovely Sephardic ballads and traditional Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino folk songs. The Klez takes place Sunday, Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Centre, 3636 Shelbourne St., Victoria. Admission is by donation; $10 suggested amount. Desserts will be served. For more information contact [email protected].

Volkssport 5/10 km walk. Meet at Running Room, 2401G Millstream Rd.

Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact is Rick at 250-478-7020.

Monday, Feb. 23Drop in baby time

from 10:30 to 11 a.m. for babies 0-15 months and their caregiver. Learn songs, rhymes and fingerplays to use with your baby every day. No registration required at the Oak Bay branch of the GVPL, 1442 Monterey Ave.

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David Black will talk about Why a Refinery in Kitimat Makes Sense at the Canadian Club luncheon this month in Victoria.

Black is president and owner of Kitimat Clean Ltd. which proposes to build a refinery in Kitimat, B.C., to refine diluted bitumen carried from the Alberta oil sands

by the Northern Gateway Pipeline, seeing only refined fuels shipped offshore. Black is also chairman and majority owner of Black Press, which publishes more than 100 newspapers including the Oak Bay News.

He received an engineering degree at University of British Columbia in 1969, and

an MBA at Western University in London, Ont. in 1971. Among other public-sector involvements, he served as the chair of the B.C. Progress Board and was appointed to the B.C. Competition Council.

In 2007, Black was recognized as Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year by the University of Victoria. In 2009, he was

inducted into the Junior Achievement Hall of Fame.

The luncheon is Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 11:45 a.m.. Tickets are $25 for members and $30 for non members. Reservation required by calling 250-370-1837 by Friday, Feb. 13. Visit thecanadianclubofvictoria.com for more information on the club.

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