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Early warningFunding bolsters community safety

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Protected tree removal means Oak Bay to get another in return

Christine van ReeuwykOak Bay News

A private property poplar came down on King George Terrace last week with a bit of fan-fare, but before causing any devastation.

“There was a private report done on the tree by a company and there was some significant decay found in one large stem that had the possibility to fail onto the road,” said Chris Hyde-Lay, manager of parks for Oak Bay.

He read from the report that in part said the weak stem “could significantly damage as it is weighted toward the overhead utility lines, street and sidewalk.”

The fast-growing Lombardi poplar is often planted as wind break.

“They live about 100 years an then they start

to fall apart and this was on that threshold,” said Hyde-Lay.

“Because it was a protected tree we (Oak Bay) do get a tree in return.”

At about 180 centimes in diameter it was well within the guidelines for a mature pro-tected tree – which must be 60-centimetres in diameter at breast height.

At 110 feet, the lift truck that came in to do the work is double anything the district owns Hyde-Lay said.

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Crews remove a poplar tree from a King George Terrace property last week due to safety concerns after decay discovered.

Decay discovery downs towering poplar

A tale of two sewage sitesPamela RothBlack Press

McLoughlin Point and Clover Point are the two potential sites for building two secondary or tertiary sewage treatment plants.

At the opening of a lengthy discussion Wednes-day among members of the Core Area Liquid Waste Management Committee, chair and Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps told members the province is willing to help the region find a solu-tion and facilitate a way to move forward, but first it needs a plan to help with.

With an estimated cost of more than $1 billion for the two plants, Helps noted the McLoughlin Point/Clover Point option isn’t perfect due to the high cost, but it is a step forward.

“It’s a leap of faith, but we’re not taking that leap in the dark. We’re taking that leap with the help and hopefully the long-term help of two ministers and their staff,” said Helps.

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Oak Bay Fire Chief Dave Cockle figures “the last place you want to be is in the dentist chair when the earthquake hits.”

He was front and centre when the prov-ince committed $5-million to Ocean Net-works Canada to develop its earthquake early warning system in B.C. that would get someone out of that dreaded chair before a quake.

The early warning system would be valuable for Oak Bay and communities across the seismic region, said Cockle, attending the announcement in his role as president of the BC Earthquake Alli-ance.

“What we’re looking at here is an oppor-tunity in the future to provide valuable

seconds which will enable residents to to take appropriate actions to protect life and property,” he said. “As we move for-ward, what we do here will make people’s lives better here in Oak Bay and in the CRD and in the province.”

The program would enhance safety for residents in areas of seismic risk. ONC collects data from offshore and coastal strong motion sensors to link with net-works of land based sensors from other agencies, including those owned by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastruc-ture, Natural Resources Canada and the University of British Columbia.

“Eventually we will have all of the pieces put together that will help us all,” Cockle said.

Oak Bay is already a part of the land-based grid, with a seismometer at the

Funding bolsters early earthquake warning plans

Monterey Avenue fire hall. “We register immediately with UBC and their

systems and they’re providing the information back to us,” Cockle said. “We’re still working on the process to get us linked directly.”

That next step means, when an earthquake hits nearby, such as the one off Sidney late last year, a warning would light up at the fire hall.

“For the firehall here, the future is an automated system,” he said.

Current protocol has firefighters opening the doors and pulling vehicles from the hall as a first priority. An automated system could open those doors first. Other warnings could include the phone system lighting up before the quake hits.

“Those are the key things that help us,” Cockle said.

The funding will add more offshore strong motion sensors and help integrate them with land-based sensors for more robust collection and anal-ysis of seismic activity for early detection and notification tools.

ONC plans to install three more P-wave sensors in the Cascadia Basin, Barkley Canyon and Clayo-quot Slope regions and five more along the coast of northern Vancouver Island.

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Did you know?n Primary wave (P-wave) sensors detect the first movements from the earth’s crust when an earthquake occurs. These first non-damaging waves are followed by secondary waves (S-waves), which cause the majority of shaking. The ability to quickly detect the P-waves can provide seconds of advance warning before the S-waves arrive. The effectiveness of the detection tool depends on having enough sensors and reliable communication infrastructure to get accurate information out quickly, as well as the distance from the quake’s epicentre to the recipients of the warning. This funding helps provide more P-wave sensors and precise GPS receivers.

Oak Bay News file photo

Ocean Networks Canada’s earthquake early warning system could give locals valuable time to prepare for an earthquake, says Oak Bay fire chief Dave Cockle, also president of the BC Earthquake Alliance.

Island Health’s Home Health Monitoring service supports patients to self-manage heart health.

Close to 300 South and Central Vancouver Island residents have used the free service that helps detect problems early, enhances quality of life, improves health outcomes and reduces hos-pital admissions.

“Home Health Monitoring gives patients the confidence they need to self-manage their health from their own homes,” said Island Health Tele-health Specialist Lisa Saffarek.

“It enables us to be more proactive in detect-ing changes in a patient’s condition. We can work with the patient and the care team to prevent urgent visits to physician offices or the emer-gency department.”

Saffarek said of the patients who have made use of the service, 100 per cent would recom-mend it to others. The overall satisfaction rate is 98 per cent. “What this program is really about is the connection that is built between the patient and the Home Health Monitoring nurse,” she said.

Oak Bay patients interested in the free service can call the local Home Health Monitoring office at 250-388-2273 or discuss with their nurse while in hospital, or their physician or nurse practitio-ner.

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Monterey Recreation Centre hosts 90-minute emergency preparedness session Christine van ReeuwykOak Bay News

Oak Bay Emergency Preparedness offers another of its ever-evolving info sessions at Monterey Recreation Centre on Thursday.

“This is geared toward all citizens of Oak Bay, including business owners,” Eileen Grant, program manager. “The whole purpose is to really talk to people about the impor-tance of being prepared for an emergency. Everybody wants to talk earthquake but there are lots of other emergencies.”

Things evolve along the way, as lessons are learned, and so a refresher can be a good idea. Grant herself learned a few lessons during a recent three-hour power outage where

she lives. “I learned some things, I thought I was fully prepared,

there were a couple things I didn’t know,” she said. “The more we talk to people the more we visit places, I was in Christchurch last fall … it comes home to you every time

how important it is to be prepared and if you’re prepared you’re that much further ahead in recovering.”

Volunteers share how residents, and those who work in the community on a regular basis, can develop a personal preparedness plan,

put together an evacuation grab-and-go kit, and a kit to be self-sufficient for a minimum of seven days after a major emergency.

“When we first started we said everybody has to come to a reception centre and we’ll register you. We don’t do that anymore. We’re starting to say shelter at home for seven days,” Grant said. “We have four things that we talk about: know the risks, have a plan, have a kit, know your neigh-bours. That’s the whole premise of our presentation.”

The 90-minute session is Thursday, March 17 at 10 a.m. This session is free but preregistration is required by calling 250-370-7300.

The next evening event by Oak Bay Emergency Prepared-ness is scheduled for May 3.

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Volunteers will go over what individuals should have in emergency kits at home, work and in the car.


The Red Chair, a brightly painted vintage piece, moves from inn to inn, exploring the best of the USA. It’s inau-gural trip to Canada, a tour through B.C., saw it spend a few days at the Oak Bay Guesthouse.

“It’s like having fam-ily come visit, they drag it around to visit everything,” said innkeeper Lori LeCount.

The Red Chair’s story started in Cape Cod in 2012 when it stayed at that region’s finest inns. It has grown to become a harbinger of good things for inns across the US. It has become a sym-bol of good work.

“For us it will be a chance to pause and see some of the places we don’t always go,” LeCount said. “It is a bit of a kudo. Not everyone gets to host the chair. It’s affirming, somebody identified us as one of the best.”

The Oak Bay Guesthouse was built in 1912 on spec and sold as a private home; after about a dozen years it started hosting guests as Newport Inn. During the war it became a boarding house

for women and children left behind, then a boarding house for seniors. In 1975 it was overhauled to make it look much as it is today, boasting 14 washrooms, 11 guest rooms and a generous owner’s apartment.

The Red Chair enjoyed some time looking out at the cherry blossoms from the guesthouse sunroom. LeCount’s other Oak Bay plans for the chair included the spa at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel up the way, Red Art Gallery on the Ave, a pint at the nearby Penny Farthing Pub, Willows Beach and the chairs (Red’s cousins per-haps?) at Kitty Islet.

Red came from Birds of a Feather Victoria in Col-wood, staying at Oak Bay Guest House from March 9 to March 15, heading afterward to Marketa’s then Dashwood Manor in Victoria before tra-versing to Ucluelet to finish out the month.

Learn more about its quest for great inns, and perhaps a few snapshots from its time in Oak Bay, at redchairtrav-els.com online.

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Readers can keep Oak Bay among Best of the City

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For the 22nd year, the Victoria News is look-ing for your help as we launch our annual Best of the City awards, showcasing the best of the best throughout the region.

“The awards are a great way of recognizing the extraordinary businesses and attractions in Victo-ria,” said Penny Sakamoto, Black Press group pub-lisher. “It’s wonderful for the business community and it’s a lot of fun for our readers; a chance for them to have their input to naming the best of a great city.”

Will 2016 see Ivy’s Bookshop crack the top three against bigger retailers Bolen, Munro’s and Chapters? Readers are the only hope to make the change, and to maintain Oak Bay Rec’s hold on top position in “best rec centre” and Oak Bay Bikes atop the “best bicycle shop” category.

Cast your ballot at oakbaynews.com/contests/ where you’ll find categories ranging from restau-rants to recreation and shopping to shows. We’ve pretty much covered it all.

Fill in your ballot in at least 40 categories and you’ll be entered to win $100 cash. More impor-tantly, you’ll help put your favourites on this year’s list of the Best of the City.

Voting will continue until April 14 at 11 p.m. Results will be published in a special Best of the

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When Stephen Lund looks at a map, he doesn’t just see streets and parks — he sees images.

“I see shapes in the map. I look at the road and shapes start to emerge,” said the 50-year-old Oak Bay resident. “I liken it to seeing shapes in a cloud. Once you get that general shape ... you can make it into a viable picture.”

Lund recreates the images by riding his bike and tracking where he goes with his Garmin GPS, weaving through parks and streets.

The project began on a whim New Years Eve 2014, when Lund decided to go out the next morn-ing on his bike and, using the red tracking lines of his GPS, write “Happy 2015.” He has also created birthday messages for family members.

Lund has since graduated from messages to intricate images.

Since 2015, he’s created 85 doodles while cycling throughout Greater Victoria, with each image averaging 70 kilometres or a roughly three- to four-hour ride.

He’s created simpler GPS doodles of a bear, hedgehog and bunny to more complicated doo-dles, including a giraffe, a pilgrim choking a turkey, the statue of David and Santa Claus.

The largest image he’s created was a mermaid, that took two days to complete and covered 100 square kilometres.

“(Cycling) is a nice mental break from work,” said Lund, who moved here four years ago from Calgary because of his love of cycling. “What I like

about the doodles is it injects a real sense of pur-pose into the ride. It’s not just a three-hour mind-less endeavour for the sake of keeping my pants from getting too tight. There’s an outcome which is exciting to look forward to.”

Creating the red lines on the map requires a lot of pre-planning on Lund’s part. Once he sees an image on a map, he plans out the route, rely-ing heavily on Google Maps and satellite view to zoom in and see which roads, schools fields, parking lots and connecting pathways he can cut through.

According to Lund, certain areas of Greater Vic-toria are ideal for different elements of the doodle.

For example, streets in Oakland make for good lettering, Foul Bay Road makes a good string and the University of Victoria makes a circle, which create the balloon in his Happy birthday mes-sages. The southern part of the city, with a higher density of roads, are great for detail.

His doodles have generated much interest online, garnering mostly positive reactions with a handful of skeptics who say he created the images in Photoshop.

Lund also links each image to Strava, a site that renders GPS data.

“I can’t trick a GPS. The proof is in the data,” he said.

Lund is currently working on a moose.“It’s a lot of time and kilometres on the bike, but

it’s a lot of fun too.” To see more of Lund’s images visit gpsdoodles.

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Oak Bay cyclist draws doodles with his rides

Stephen Lund creates images

by riding his bike along

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using a GPS tracker to

outline images.Contributed illustration

MLA Andrew Weaver hosts a town hall on seniors and health care with special guest B.C. Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie on March 29.

The evening will include a brief update on Weaver’s work as an MLA in the legislature and around the constituency, followed by a pre-sentation by the seniors advocate. After the presentation, there will

be an open question and answer period moderated by Oak Bay resi-dent Cairine Green.

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Readers can keep Oak Bay among Best of the City

Tim Collins Black Press

Ask someone to name his or her favourite local res-taurant and it’s sure to generate discus-sion. It’s the same for favourite brews, bars, sporting events and festivals – not to mention theatre, dance, or art in any of a multitude of disciplines and styles.

For the 22nd year, the Victoria News is look-ing for your help as we launch our annual Best of the City awards, showcasing the best of the best throughout the region.

“The awards are a great way of recognizing the extraordinary businesses and attractions in Victo-ria,” said Penny Sakamoto, Black Press group pub-lisher. “It’s wonderful for the business community and it’s a lot of fun for our readers; a chance for them to have their input to naming the best of a great city.”

Will 2016 see Ivy’s Bookshop crack the top three against bigger retailers Bolen, Munro’s and Chapters? Readers are the only hope to make the change, and to maintain Oak Bay Rec’s hold on top position in “best rec centre” and Oak Bay Bikes atop the “best bicycle shop” category.

Cast your ballot at oakbaynews.com/contests/ where you’ll find categories ranging from restau-rants to recreation and shopping to shows. We’ve pretty much covered it all.

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Voting will continue until April 14 at 11 p.m. Results will be published in a special Best of the

City magazine on June 24.

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As the B.C. government spends mil-lions on an international brand cam-paign with the recycled slogan “Super, Natural B.C.,” another brand identity has spread across Canada.

This one’s unintentional. It hit a new peak last week with the arrival of two young men from Saskatchewan, who were given one-way tickets to Vancouver and Vic-toria by typically burdened social services ministry staff in North Battleford.

Sorting through the bliz-zard of soothing sound bites and sympathetic TV clips, a clearer picture emerges.

In his initial interview with the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Charles Neil-Curly, at 23 the elder of the two, said he decided to head west when shelter staff told him his time had run out and he asked for bus tickets to B.C.

“When they asked if I had a place to go, I just said, ‘yeah’,” Neil-Curly said. “I was going to the next homeless shelter anyway.”

Transients and panhandlers aren’t the only ones who say whatever they figure will get them through another day. Politicians do it too.

Admitting she knew little about the arrivals, Premier Christy Clark sug-gested that both were mentally ill and deserve every support the province can give them.

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has also demonstrated factual flex-ibility as he presides over the creation of his latest single-room-occupancy

drug ghetto in a residential neighbourhood in Victoria.

After quietly proposing a closed-down nursing home called Mount Edwards Court as a temporary solu-tion to the filthy “tent city” that sprang up on provin-cial property last fall, Cole-man abruptly announced from his Langley office Feb. 5 that the building had been bought and partly renovated for $4 million. It would house 38 people for

up to a year.I asked him if the purchase meant

the conversion of Mount Edwards into permanent “low-barrier” housing for 100 people was a “done deal,” as area residents believe. “They’re wrong,” Coleman indignantly replied, and there would be community consulta-tion over the next year.

In subsequent comments to report-ers, he said the province doesn’t really need city zoning, but will apply for it anyway. (That won’t be a prob-lem with Victoria’s far-left city council, which is keen to add a supervised injection site too.)

On Feb. 24, Coleman was asked if he is concerned that the 88 housing units at two locations would fill up and other transients would arrive to take their place. By that time the tent

squat appeared to have about 100 people in residence, with the usual overdoses, violence and prostitution.

Coleman assured us it hasn’t hap-pened in Abbotsford or Maple Ridge, where tent camps have finally been cleaned up after shelters and housing were provided.

The next day, he was asked if transi-tional accommodations would be suf-ficient to end the camp.

“They’re not actually all that tran-sitional,” Coleman replied. “We’ll take Mount Edwards through a zoning process. We’ve got about 100 beds there. We’ve bought the building so it’s hardly transitional. We’ve perma-nently done that.”

Fast forward to March 11. The 38 Mount Edwards spaces are full, another 40 rooms and camping spaces at a former youth custody cen-tre are almost full, and the province applies for a court order to clear the Victoria camp.

A representative of the advocacy group Together Against Poverty Soci-ety goes on local radio to pledge legal support for the campers. How many are there now? At least 100, he says.

Meanwhile in Maple Ridge, where the “homeless” problem is all fixed, Coleman has just extended temporary shelter funding and paid $5.5 million for a 61-room motel to fix it some more.

Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. [email protected]

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Increased fire penalties a step in the right direction

While recent spring rains may have dampened the memory of the long, dry summer that was 2015, stiffer penalties announced this week by the B.C. government will undoubtedly be welcomed by firefighters around the province and here at home.

Not to mention homeowners living in areas vulnerable to wildfire – including here in Oak Bay – and those concerned about the risk to local parks.

Provincial Forests Minister Steve Thomson announced Thursday that fines for 19 offences under the Wildfire Act, including interfering with wildfire protection efforts, are being increased to among the highest in Canada.

For example, the fine for failing to comply with fire restrictions such as campfire bans will increase to $1,150 from $345. A new penalty of failing to comply with a stop-work order made because of fire risk will carry a maximum penalty of $100,000 and one year in prison. Additional areas still under review include penalties for those who toss lit cigarette’s out of car windows and those who ignore campfire bans.

The legislation will also redefine “interference” with firefighters, to include interference that’s not necessarily intentional – boaters who block air tankers from filling with water, for example, or the drone pilot who caused aircraft to land as vineyards, homes and a school around Oliver were threatened by fire.

Last summer, the Island’s incredibly dry summer brought an earlier-than-usual campfire ban and hazy, orange-tinged skies from the wildfires burning throughout B.C. It also brought reminders from Oak Bay Fire about the risks the conditions posed to local property where expansive grasslands filled with tinder-dry combustible material stand in proximity to many residential neighbourhoods.

Will the measures put an end to human-caused wildfires? No. But they’ll likely help more people stop and think before making a stupid mistake that can have far-reaching ramifications.

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re: Park plays vital biodiver-sity role and Heritage protection must extend to nature, Oak Bay News, March 9

right on. rare plants are among our most interesting nat-ural heritage in oak Bay.

Many of our urban parks are no ordinary parks. They are living museums replete with natural and cultural heritage, from uplands to the Chinese Cemetery National Historic Site at Harling Point.

Thanks to Chris Hyde-Lay and oak Bay Parks for paying attention to this priceless and unusual heritage.

oak Bay should do what many other Canadian munici-palities have done: declare itself a Heritage District and protect its heritage professionally.

This is our brand. Time has come to make it official.

Jacques SiroisOak Bay

Unkempt boulevards and sidewalks unacceptable

re: Better care needed for golf course boulevards, Oak Bay News letters, March 9

My husband and i are pleased to see that we are not the only oak Bay residents who are unhappy about the unkempt state of our boulevards.

i have written to our mayor several times about the weeds growing from the 1200-block Beach Drive to beyond the Vic-toria Golf Club and other areas with no action ever taken.

Beach Drive is one of Victo-ria’s most popular walks and drives, and the boulevards and sidewalks should not be so untidy; it’s beauty should be enhanced at every opportunity.

Many boulevards and side-walks in oak Bay are in a similar shoddy state.

it saddens me to see how scruffy our municipality has become over the past 10 years. oak Bay’s setting is magnifi-cent and is similar to Carmel

By The Sea in California and deserves to receive at least the same attention to its beauty and serenity.

Last year we visited Pentic-ton, another top tourist desti-nation. There were no weeds growing on any of their side-walk curbs for up to two miles on either side of the city. if Penticton can do it, so can our municipality.

our homeowners spend their dollars to keep their gardens neat and tidy, why can’t our municipality do the same? All surrounding municipalities with their magnificent gardens and tidiness make oak Bay look dowdy.

our maintenance and parks department staff should have been increased instead of hiring more high-priced management staff that were not necessary.

P.M. CoulterOak Bay

Commercial vehicles shouldn’t trump elderly

re: Hampshire parking poses problem for senior, Oak Bay News, March 9

A personal note about the

Hampshire parking problem outlined by Jennifer Blyth may help to put this matter in per-spective.

i am 90 and my wife is 89 and she needs to meet with Dr. edwards at McNeill Audiology. i park just below the library adjoining McNeills because there is nowhere else to park – nowhere. My wife can only walk with a walker but she cannot push it up the ramp from the library parking so i am behind her pushing her.

i have no idea how the loca-tion of a commercial vehicle can take preference over stopping such abuse of the old and of course the majority of McNeill’s patients are deaf because they are old.

A staff member suggests going into the library building and working ones way to come down the ramp. Meant kindly but totally impractical.

My wife would finish up as a bundle at the bottom of he ramp and with regular hospital visits for echocardiograms i don’t think it would be good for me either.

J.E. (Ted) Dew-Jones, P.Eng.Victoria

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Indigenous rights and reconciliation advocate Mavis Gillie received an honorary degree last week from the Univer-sity of Victoria.

Gillie, 88, received the university’s high-est honour at a spe-cial convocation cer-emony March 9.

In her younger years, Gillie spent a decade in the North-west Territories and it was there that the plight of First Nations peoples ignited her lifelong activism for justice and healing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities based on moral and spiritual grounds.

After moving to Victoria and during the Mack-enzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry in the 1970s, Gillie was a founding member of Project North (Victo-ria Chapter), offering assistance and support for the Dene and Inuit in their opposition to the pipe-line proposal.

Her later work included aiding First Nations in opposing logging in Haida Gwaii and the Stein River Valley, and organizing support for the Nisga’a Treaty.

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Oak Bay Firefighter John Ballantyne will bring home at least one fire story when he returns from Peru later this month.

Last week he found himself teaching in the the second big-gest city in Peru, Arequipa.

“Everything is on the fly and you have to be adaptable,” he said in an email. “I have been teaching in Arequipa, for the last three days. Arequipa is in the southern Highlands of

Peru at about 7,500 ft. in the shadow of three volcanoes. The largest one looms over town at 19,000 ft. If that baby goes all is lost down here. Beautiful setting though.”

Firefighters Without Bor-ders Canada is a group of vol-unteer firefighters, profession-als and civilians from all over Canada and the US. The Van-couver-based non-profit offers support to emergency service organizations in countries with a demonstrated need by donating equipment and train-ing. The goal is to provide a

“helping hand up.”Ballantyne is part of a crew

of 13 from around North Amer-ica who flew out this month to train firefighters. He’s work-ing alongside Nick Gonzalez-Pomo from San Rafael, Cali-fornia and Fire Commissioner Larry Luckham, also of San Rafael.

“Classes have gone well we have had 20 to 30 students each day,” he wrote. “The most rewarding class was one that we did on the fly and changed our plans when we did not have the facilities for our original plan. We taught them how to use their new SCOTT 4500 SCBA. Pretty familiar right.

Peru bought 20 or so new Spartan engines that came fully specked including SCOTT packs similar to ours includ-ing dual (Emergency Breath-

Bomberos battle offers prime lesson opportunitying Support System). Unfortunately nobody trains with air packs because it is difficult to fill bottles so the only experience people get is when they use them in fires. During a classroom session the two packs we used to show the class the features had air leaks due to loose connections or blown O rings. We stressed daily inspections.”

The instructors witnessed the firefighters use the air packs working a fire the next day.

Near the end of an auto extrication class – with-out an actual vehicle to work on – an alarm came in for a confirmed structure fire.

“Quickly we lost our class and we eventually took a cab down to the fire once we secured our equipment,” Ballantyne wrote.

The fire was in two buildings storing empty 45-gallon drums and five-gallon pails of metal and plastic.

“About 70 (firefighters) showed up with appa-ratus from all over the world. The riot police showed up for crowd control with tear gas, auto-matic weapons, riot shields and two water cannon trucks, one with two turrets. The riot police were just a precaution.

“The warehouse was emptied into the street, 200 barrels were emptied into the street, many of them compromised by the fire. Two of the barrels had paint thinner or something similar in them which caused issues to say the least. Foam would have come in handy.”

The fire provided first-hand knowledge and fod-der for the final day of class in Arequipa.

“At the end 70 firefighters were lined up. I thought they were going to do a post-incident analysis but it was just a dismissal with a big ‘Viva Peru!’”, he wrote. “Tonight is our last class in Arequipa and we are teaching incident command and introducing command boards. Lots of fresh examples to use.”

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I’ll start with a personal story. I adore potentialities, which in gardening terms mean seeds, seed-lings, and growing things quickly and intensely. I have a greenhouse now to cater to this predi-lection, and it was a greenhouse where I first felt at peace at 20, when I was hired by a herbal-ist to propagate plants. I puttered in the silence and became enraptured by small things – the miraculous rooting of cuttings, the emergence of true leaves, the beginnings of growth.

I’ve learned that I like rota-tion, change, harvests, and I live in climate that suits this: I can sow almost every month of the year. I’m a successionist you could say, a bit of a farmer at heart.

So what kind of gardener are you? For the sake of entertain-ment if not edification, let me characterize a few types:

The Cottage Gardener: When self-sown doesn’t mean you actually sowed it yourself, it’s good year. Surprise, abun-dance, perennials, colour—you can’t get enough (though you’ve been meaning to get more shrubs, right?). You view

gardening as a process and are working on year-round colour. You’ve got a pair of gardening clogs by the back door. The words ‘trug’ and ‘dibbler’ have passed your lips.

The Designer: You’re good with form, abstraction, and spatial relationships. Perhaps you play an instrument, draw, or have a love of history. You believe that interior design

should be reflected in the garden. Aesthet-ics inspire you. You’d choose to read a cof-fee table book over a seed catalogue. Your secret fear: using colour.

The Collector: You can’t turn an interest-ing plant down. If it was the 19th century, you’d have signed on to a botanical expe-

dition. You appease yourself with collecting varieties of one genus or add to your stock by swapping with friends. No spe-cialist catalogue is safe from browsing and you are desper-ately trying to say no to coffee dates at Demitasse because every time you go you leave with fabulous new plants. Your mantra (hoping this incantation will magically transform you into a designer): Plant in threes, fives, or sevens.

The Brown Thumb: You spend an inordinate amount of time weeding. You under-plant and under-hire, wondering why, when you buy so many bloody plants, you still have so many gaps in your beds. You don’t research as you know you should, or tend to your soil, but when pressed you do care,

you really do; your garden is a problem to be solved. Your downfall: Buying ill-adapted, discount plants at Costco.

The Ecologist: A rare species of gardener, you derive plea-sure from an understanding of natural systems and your commitment to native plants. Patience, attention to detail, and integrity fuel your convic-tion. Birds help too. You don’t hear these words often enough so I’ll say them here: Thank you.

The Perfectionist: Let’s take stock of the arsenal first: Leaf-blower, check. Mini-rake, check. Weed-killers, maybe. Not afraid to buy annuals en masse for instant colour, the Perfection-ist doesn’t mind repetition, and is quick to fill in space. You’re practical, and see hardscaping as an integral part of your gar-den. Your mantra: Fail to plan, plan to fail.

I think most of us have a bit of all of these gardeners within us. I over-commit and under-perform just as much as the next person, and I also fall prey to hope, under-hiring and col-lecting. Perfectionism I sorely lack.

Thinking about the kind of gardener you are can help you play to your strengths and turn your shortcomings into assets. Gardens are living things and they should grow and change as we do.

So I should revise my ques-tion: What kind of gardener do you want to become?

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She stressed that the committee isn’t locked into anything.

“We’re saying given where we are today, given the information we have, this is the direction that we’re giving you so that we are not giving you nothing. They’ve been waiting for a while.”

According to CRD staff, a sewage treat-ment plant at Clover Point would be con-structed underground so it’s out of site from the public, just like the pump station cur-rently there now. It would also be built to last until 2045 since it would be difficult to

expand. Committee members were torn about the

proposal, with some agreeing a compro-mise has been found while others grappled with Clover Point suddenly being thrown into the mix.

For director and Victoria Coun. Geoff Young, a single site instead of two still offers many cost advantages.

“From the perspective of the taxpayer, we would be better off flipping a coin to deter-mine a single site. This two-headed compro-mise has a cost of $250 million or so more than a single-site option,” said Young, who still believes McLoughlin is the best site for

a single plant, even though it was rejected by Esquimalt nearly two years ago.

Young also believes there’s no way Vic-toria council will approve a plant at Clover Point, therefore the proposal is doomed to fail.

Director Ben Isitt also questioned Clo-ver Point and suggested adding Macaulay Plain into the mix, along with negotiat-ing with the neighbouring Department of National Defence for more land to expand the 0.3-hectare site.

“The reasonableness you’re asking, the generosity you’re asking of citizens of Vic-toria and their council in comparison with

the veto that was given to Esquimalt – it’s frankly ridiculous,” Isitt said. “These are pri-vate residential households directly across (from Clover Point) where this committee is contemplating putting in a major plant after Esquimalt turned down a facility that was half a kilometre away from the nearest residential property.”

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Wednesday, March 16 Volkssport – Monday and Wednesday morning walks. Registration at 8:45 a.m.; walk at 9 a.m. For current schedule call Rick, 250-478-7020 or Jan, 250-665-6062.

Lenten Lunchtime Concert – Alayta Poon-Dancoes, violin and Frances Armstrong, piano from 12:10 to 12:55 p.m. at St. Mary’s Anglican Church, 1701 Elgin Rd. Admission is by donation ($8 suggested) to the BC Cancer Foundation. Bring your lunch. Coffee and tea provided. Info: 250-598-2212 or [email protected]

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Spring Break Everyone Welcome Skate – 1:30 to 3 p.m. at Oak Bay Rec Centre.

Friday, March 18Drop-in Family Storytime – from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Fridays at the Oak Bay branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, 1442 Monterey Ave. No registration required.

St. Patrick’s Day Ceilidh with Crikey Mor and Friends – Upstairs Lounge Concert Series continues at Oak Bay Rec Centre. Doors at 6 p.m., show starts at 7:30 p.m. All ages welcome. Tickets from Oak Bay Rec or beaconridgeproductions.com

Music In The House: Belle Voci – St. Matthias Anglican Church, 600 Richmond St. features Sara Partridge, Sarah Bachmann Krieger, Marnie Setka-Mooney, Kim Greenwood and Jim Hill performing music by Pergolisi, Flemming, Bach, Debussy, 7:30 p.m. Reception follows Tickets $15 adults, $10 seniors (students by donation), available from St. Matthias Church, 250-598-2833. Proceeds to the organ fund.

Saturday, March 19Volkssport 5/10 km Walk – Meet at Oak Bay Rec Centre, 1975 Bee St. Register at 9:30 a.m. for 10 a.m. walk. Info: Carol, 250-386-6670.

Birding in Uplands Park – Join Geoffrey Newell of the Friends of Uplands Park for the Spring Bird Migration. After observing sea and shore birds, head inland into the park to listen to and search for the many song birds in the Garry oak community. Meet at Cattle Point in the large parking lot, 9 a.m.

Mobile Shredding Fundraiser – On-site shredding by donation, 9 a.m. to noon at Oak Bay Kiwanis Tea Room, Willows Beach.

Earth Hour everyone welcome skate – Skate under basic lighting and participate in energy saving awareness as Recreation Oak Bay joins people across the world to celebrate their commitment to the planet, 7:30 to 8:45 p.m.

17th Annual LOOK Art Show – Opening reception for the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria’s annual art exhibition at The Bay Centre, third level, 2 to 4 p.m. o. The show continues to April 10. All welcome; free admission

Inspire, with the Linden Singers and SingYourJoy Young Adult Chorus – Enjoy a challenging repertoire reflecting the wide range of interests and tastes of this combined group of singers. 7:30 p.m. at St. Aidan’s United Church, 3703 St. Aidan’s St. General admission is $15; for those age 29 and younger, admission is “pay what you can” at the door. Tickets available online, at http://lindensingers.com/concerts-tickets, and at the door.

Sunday, March, 20 Volkssport 5/10 km Walk – Meet at Crystal Pool, 2275 Quadra St. Register at 9:30 a.m. for 10 a.m. walk. Info: Diane, 250-477-4785.

Kiwanis Sunday Morning Breakfast – Oak Bay Kiwanis hosts fundraising breakfast, 9 a.m. to 12

p.m. at the Kiwanis Willows Beach Tea Room, $10. Proceeds support Oak Bay Kiwanis Pavilion Care Facility.

De Danann – Traditional Irish music, 7:30 p.m. at Farquhar Auditorium, UVic. Info/tickets: University Centre Ticket Centre, 250-721-8480 or tickets.uvic.ca.

Variety Cafe – A drop-in, unplugged open mic with a variety of entertainment: music, short poems, trivia, favourite records, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Montery Centre. Entertainers – come prepared to perform. Audience members always welcome.

People meeting People Dance Club – Live bands plus ballroom, jive and line dances suitable for all abilities; welcoming, friendly atmosphere and a good dance floor, 7 to 10 p.m. at Monterey Centre, 1442 Monterey Ave. Info: 250-896-9000.

Monday, March 21Volkssport – Monday and Wednesday morning walks. Registration at 8:45 a.m.; walk at 9 a.m. For current schedule call Rick, 250-478-7020 or Jan, 250-665-6062.

Drop in baby time – from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Mondays for babies 0 to 15 months and their caregiver. Learn songs, rhymes and fingerplays to use with your baby every day. At the Oak Bay branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, 1442 Monterey Ave. No registration required.

Spring Break Everyone Welcome Skate – 1:30 to 3 p.m. at Oak Bay Rec Centre.

Tuesday, March 22Drop-in Family Storytime – for young children and their families, 10:30 to 11 a.m. Tuesdays. Enjoy fun-filled stories, songs, rhymes, and puppets at the Oak Bay branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, 1442 Monterey Ave. No registration required.

Embrace the Night walk – Monthly, family-friendly evening stroll from the Community Association of Oak Bay through Oak Bay, 7 p.m. Info: caob.ca

Wednesday, March 23 Glenn Miller Orchestra – Timeless classics from the world-famous orchestra at UVic’s Farquhar Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: University Centre Ticket Centre, 250-721-8480 or tickets.uvic.ca. Info: uvic.ca/auditorium.

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Oak Bay High’s Ski and Snow-board Team posted its most suc-cessful season since forming in the 2013/2014 school year.

“This year was filled with excellent snow conditions, great training opportunities, grow-ing friendships and friendly but tough competition,” said coach Tina Horwood.

“The team made huge strides

over the previous two seasons on the hill. This is due to the great dedication from our skiers and snowboarders, and snow that we could actually dig into and carve.”

All team members performed well with multiple skiers who placed in the top three on the Island: Patricia Horwood sec-ond, Henrike Heitmann third, Logan Rampton second, and Liam Morgan third.

Horwood also credits parent

volunteers who drove to Mt. Washington early on Sunday mornings, stayed for overnights, helped with race set-up and tim-ing and ultimately helping them see a successful season.

“We look forward to defending our titles as Island champions for both the girls’ and boys’ ski teams, and hopefully adding a snowboard title next year,” Hor-wood said.

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Eight-time team championsOak Bay Figure Skating Club leapt and spun into first place in the team category during the Vancouver Island Figure Skating Championships at Q Centre. This year’s competition marked the eighth year in a row that Oak Bay Figure Skating returned with the team trophy, which goes to the club that accumulates the most points by having the most skaters on the podium over the course of the event.

Victoria Eagles Baseball, the high-performance baseball program playing out of Carnarvon and Lam-brick parks, partnered with Island’s Triple Play Athletics to help young athletes pursue goals of playing at the college and university level.

The two launched their collab-oration at the Pacific Institute of Sports Excellence last week, said Martin Winstanley, chair of Eagles Baseball.

Triple Play Athletics president Bill Green, a recently retired school principal, has also served in lead-ership roles at the provincial and national levels and was an instruc-tor at the Camosun College Centre for Sport and Exercise Education. Green’s son Taylor worked his way through the college and university systems to professional ball where he played in the MLB for the Mil-waukee Brewers, in addition to playing with the Canadian National Baseball team.

The joint Eagles-Triple Play Ath-letics program is rooted in fun-damental life lessons and values, Winstanley said. The goal of the program “is to develop confident, competent student-athletes who value hard work and taking owner-ship of their futures. Eagles play-ers involved in the college selec-tion and scholarship process will own and appreciate what it took to

achieve their goals. This learning experience boosts their chances of success in baseball and life.”

Green also developed an online Athlete’s Academy (The PACE Academy) that allows student-athletes to take accredited, ath-lete-focused Ministry of Education courses online to enhance their academic and athletic skills outside the regular classroom. PACE, free to B.C. students, allows Eagles stu-dent athletes to stay at their home school and develop fitness and skill programs on their own schedule, Winstanley said.

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Play ball!n The Victoria Eagles are ready to kick off the 2016 baseball season with the third annual spring break tournament March 25 to 27 at Lambrick Park. In addition to the Eagles AAA, Junior Premier and Premier teams, the tourney welcomes the Victoria Mariners Premier and Junior Premier squads, the Nanaimo Pirates, the Calgary Blues and the Parksville Royals. Games run from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. See victoriaeagles.com for more details.

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Have you ever looked at an elderly person and glumly thought, “They look like they’re fading fast”?

While fading fast does happen, it doesn’t always have to happen.

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Then Care & Company came on the scene and made one simple change. Six months later, you wouldn’t recognize this woman who had been fading fast. Judy was smiling, talking, going to the gym to exercise and had gained weight. All it took was knowing what made her happy.

In Judy’s case, it was a caregiver who reminded her of her children.

Single men are particularly at risk when they have dementia. They lose weight because they don’t eat. They don’t wash their clothes or shower. Or they forget to rinse off shampoo and get scalp issues. They don’t go to the doctor when they’re ill. And they don’t take their medications. Or else they double up on meds one day and forget the next. For them, care really is life-changing.

Michael’s* dementia wasn’t as bad as Judy’s. He could still live on his own. But he wasn’t changing his clothes, wasn’t eating and was sleeping all the time. His nieces lived out of town and were concerned about their uncle.

They phoned Care & Company because they’d decided that Michael needed some care and companionship. Today, Michael has gained weight, is going for walks again, and has perked up considerably. He’s also looking better. The best news is that he’s cognitively improved because he’s taking his medications on time.

He’s also smiling now because he loves having his lovely ladies visit him.

If you are a senior who would like to discuss care, or are responsible for a senior who needs care, call the caring professionals at Care & Company to discuss your options. They have a passion for helping seniors improve their health and smile more in the process. Care & Company, 250-382-2328, www.SeniorCareVictoria.ca

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Malahat Review symposium at UVic March 16 to 20; Celebrate UVic Authors on March 17

Two University of Victoria writing events shine the spotlight on the written word this week.

Literature comes alive at the University of Victoria as the Malahat Review hosts its fourth annual WordsThaw Festival March 16 to 20.

Guests can mingle with more than 30

poets, novelists, short-story writers, film makers and journalists during the literary quarterly’s four-day symposium, kicking off at Cinecenta on March 16 with a screening of The Trick with the Gun. The film documents magic’s most notorious illusion, the bullet catch, as reinterpreted by the film’s writ-ers Christopher Gudgeon and Scott Hamell. (Purchase tickets through Cinecenta.)

On March 17, as part of UVic’s Lansd-owne Lecture series, Toronto writer Molly Peacock explore commonalities between the poem’s intuition and the essay’s savoir-faire in Fact, Metaphor, and the Single Voice: Where Creative Nonfiction Meets Poetry.

Admission is free.On March 18, Words on Ice, a gala of

poetry, spoken word, fiction and nonfiction will include readings by Green Party leader and MP Elizabeth May, Victoria Coun. Jer-emy Loveday, Peacock, M.A.C. Farrant, Kim Trainor, Jordan Abel, Stella Harvey and UVic alumni Laura Trunkey and J.D. Zapf.

A full day of creative nonfiction panel discussions follows March 19, with topics including Literary Afterlives, The Investiga-tive Poet and Creative Nonfiction in Canada Today: Fact, Fiction or Scandal?

March 17 is the UVic Author Celebration at the UVic Bookstore from 3 to 5 p.m.

The event celebrates two years of pub-lications by UVic faculty, staff, students, alumni and retirees reflecting a wide array of research, teaching, personal and profes-sional interests.

Hosted by UVic Libraries and the UVic Bookstore, the event is moderated by David Leach, chair of UVic’s writing department. Author panelists include Karen Hibbard, Eve Joseph, Frances Backhouse, Troy Wil-son and Rob Hancock.

Admission is free.For more information about WordsThaw

2016, visit malahatreview.ca/wordsthaw online.

UVic literary events brings words into focus

oak bay news, march 16, 2016

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