Wednesday, August 19, 2015 oakbaynews.com Bible back home 140-year-old Bible re-crosses the Atlantic Page A3 NEWS: Donation supports sculpture project /A4 ARTS: Brushing Up along Bowker /A5 SPORTS: Royals’ therapist gets national call /A15 OAK BAY NEWS Volunteer service can be a stepping stone to a future career Pirjo Raits News staff If you’ve ever wondered about life as a police officer, you can check it out before committing, and help your community at the same time. The Oak Bay Police Department is recruit- ing Reserve Constables to beef up its ranks. Oak Bay Police Sgt. Rob Smith said the Reserve Constables are unpaid volunteers but the group can provide the perfect train- ing for people with aspirations of being on a regular police force. “It’s a stepping stone to see if it appeals to them,” Smith said. The Oak Bay Police is one of 12 municipal police forces in the province. Smith said British Columbia is an exception as most provinces have provincial police forces. “In B.C. the RCMP is the provincial police force,” he said. Potential recruits for the Reserve Con- stables receive extensive training in areas ranging from legal studies to the use of force. Reserves do not carry guns but are trained in self-defence, hand-to-hand com- bat, use of tasers and other suppression techniques. Strict rules govern what their duties are. Smith, once an auxiliary constable him- self, said at one time Reserves were armed. Today, the program has Reserve Constables as backups and dealing with crime preven- tion and community policing. Reserves are uniformed, trained in traffic direction and accompany regular officers on patrol. In fact, many of the reserves are retired police officers. “Where we use them most is in commu- nity events – the reserves are invaluable,” Smith said, noting that for community events such as runs and cycling events, the non-profit group has to have a traffic plan and Reserve Constables can be used rather than a regular police officer. There is also a “sharing” with Saanich reserves if need be. Police department seeks new Reserve Constables PLEASE SEE: Constables on Patrol, Page A2 Market dance Local Morris dancers entertain at the Oak Bay Night Market Wednesday (Aug. 12). The traditional English folk dancing features a variety of different dances performed by both women and men, to a background of live folk music. The final night market for the season is scheduled for Sept. 9. Jennifer Blyth/Oak Bay News 250-595-1907 www.oakbaycomputers.ca [email protected]Computer Support Services In-home & Office Seniors Rates 7 DAYS A WEEK Buying or selling in Oak Bay? Give me a call. Area specialization does make a difference! Royal Le Page Coast Capital Realty [email protected]250-893-5800 BAY OAK COMING SOON! A very hard find. One level, no step home custom built in the late 80's. Located just steps from Willows Beach offering some water views. Large master suite and second bedroom on the entry level, plus a fully finished walk-out basement. Bonus for the area is a large double garage. Call me for details and/or to be put on the list for advanced showings.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015 oakbaynews.com
Bible back home140-year-old Bible
re-crosses the AtlanticPage A3
NEWS: Donation supports sculpture project /A4ARTS: Brushing Up along Bowker /A5SPORTS: Royals’ therapist gets national call /A15
OAK BAYNEWS
Volunteer service can be a stepping stone to a future careerPirjo RaitsNews staff
If you’ve ever wondered about life as a police officer, you can check it out before committing, and help your community at the same time.
The Oak Bay Police Department is recruit-ing Reserve Constables to beef up its ranks.
Oak Bay Police Sgt. Rob Smith said the Reserve Constables are unpaid volunteers but the group can provide the perfect train-ing for people with aspirations of being on a regular police force.
“It’s a stepping stone to see if it appeals to them,” Smith said.
The Oak Bay Police is one of 12 municipal police forces in the province. Smith said British Columbia is an exception as most provinces have provincial police forces.
“In B.C. the RCMP is the provincial police force,” he said.
Potential recruits for the Reserve Con-
stables receive extensive training in areas ranging from legal studies to the use of force. Reserves do not carry guns but are trained in self-defence, hand-to-hand com-bat, use of tasers and other suppression techniques. Strict rules govern what their duties are.
Smith, once an auxiliary constable him-self, said at one time Reserves were armed. Today, the program has Reserve Constables as backups and dealing with crime preven-tion and community policing.
Reserves are uniformed, trained in traffic direction and accompany regular officers
on patrol. In fact, many of the reserves are retired
police officers. “Where we use them most is in commu-
nity events – the reserves are invaluable,” Smith said, noting that for community events such as runs and cycling events, the non-profit group has to have a traffic plan and Reserve Constables can be used rather than a regular police officer. There is also a “sharing” with Saanich reserves if need be.
Police department seeks new Reserve Constables
PLEASE SEE: Constables on Patrol, Page A2
Market dance
Local Morris dancers entertain at the Oak Bay Night Market Wednesday (Aug. 12). The traditional English folk dancing features a variety of different dances performed by both women and men, to a background of live folk music. The final night market for the season is scheduled for Sept. 9.
COMING SOON!A very hard fi nd. One level, no step home custom built in
the late 80's. Located just steps from Willows Beach offeringsome water views. Large master suite and second bedroom on
the entry level, plus a fully fi nished walk-out basement. Bonus for the area is a large double garage. Call me for details
and/or to be put on the list for advanced showings.
Applicants for the reserves have to be between the ages of 19 and 60, live with the Capital Regional District and not have a crimi-nal record. The require-ments get a bit more stringent once the appli-cants are short-listed.
Smith said that they seek applicants who have a good balance of life experience. Mis-deeds as a youth don’t necessarily disqualify someone from applying.
“You have to have lived a little bit of life to deal with people,” Smith said. “We don’t expect perfection but we do have to cover ourselves.
“We have a lot of people interested who are established community mem-bers, have families and great careers. They want to give back to the commu-nity in this particu-lar way,” Smith said.
The Oak Bay Police Department currently has four Reserve Constables and is opening up two spots. The Saanich Police are running the training program and offered two spots to Oak Bay.
“The training is transferable,” Smith said.
Applicants need to pass physical and medical tests, possess a valid
B.C. driver’s licence and be willing to commit to serving 12 to 16 hours a month.
“Most put in a lot more than that,” Smith said.
Successful candidates must com-plete the basic Reserve Officers training mandated by the BC Minis-
try of Justice. Train-ing takes about four months with classes held one evening a week and one weekend day, and includes both practical and writ-ten exams.
The next Reserve Constable course
is scheduled to start in November. Applications must be received prior to Sept. 15.
For more information or to apply to the OBPD Reserve Program, con-tact Sgt. Rob Smith at 250-592-2424 or email [email protected].
“Where we use them most is in community events – the reserves are invaluable.”
– Sgt. Rob Smith
Applications for the next Reserve Constable course must be received by Sept. 15
Private jobs fall, self-employment up
The unemployment rate in B.C. held steady at six per cent in July, with a reduction in pri-vate-sector jobs offset by increased public sector employment and self-employment.
BC Stats reported that private sector employ-ment fell by 4,500 jobs from June, while private sector jobs grew by 1,800 and the number of self-employed rose by 2,100.
Compared to July 2014, self-employment was up by 9,800 while private sector employment was down 8,300.
B.C.’s unemployment rate tied with Alberta for third lowest in the country in July. Saskatchewan was lowest with 5.2 per cent and Manitoba second lowest at 5.8 per cent, compared with a national rate of 6.8 per cent. B.C.’s commodity exports increased 9.1 per cent in June, with increases in forestry products, farm and fishing products and energy. Exports were up 12.8 per cent to the U.S. and 5.1 per cent to the rest of the world.
NEWSIN BRIEF
The Capital Regional Dis-trict’s Core Area Liquid Waste Management Committee made three important decisions last week to guide its work on costing options in the coming months.
The CALWMC secured techni-cal support to conduct detailed analysis and engineering work, selected six individuals to the Technical Over-sight Panel and chose a Fairness and Transparency Advisor. “The calibre of candidates and firms that applied for each of these roles speaks to a renewed con-fidence in the project,” said Vic-toria Mayor Lisa Helps, commit-tee chair. “Elected officials now have world-class expertise at our fingertips and in particular a good balance between lead-ing edge innovation and exten-sive experience in capital proj-ect management and costing, including lifecycle costing.”
Teresa Coady is chair of the Technical Oversight Panel that will include Susheel Arora, Rob-ert Atkins, Roger Bailey, Bruce Jank and Jeff Snyder. “This is
the biggest project to date in the CRD and it is vital that it is done right,” Coady said.
Kim Cholette was named Fair-ness and Transparency Advisor to ensure the process of costing the options, working with the host jurisdictions and prepar-ing an amendment to the Liq-uid Waste Management Plan is fair, transparent, impartial and
objective.Cholette has
a Master of Busi-ness Adminis-tration and her extensive expe-
rience in the area of legislative reviews, administrative fairness assessments, and public sector policy and program develop-ment was honed over 20 years working in the public sector in B.C. and the Yukon.
Urban Systems, partnered with Carollo Associates, was awarded the contract to con-duct the Feasibility and Cost-ing Analysis for the CRD’s Core Area Liquid Waste Management Plan Wastewater Treatment Sys-tem.
Urban Systems have provided support to both the Westside and Eastside Select Committee
processes over the past four months and have a good under-standing of the objectives with the next phase of work. Carollo Associates is a U.S. environmen-tal engineering firm specializing in water and wastewater plan-ning, design and construction services for municipal clients.
Carollo Associates offers spe-cialist advisors in key subject areas appropriate for the scope of work.
Urban Systems and Carollo Associates will provide detailed costing and technical analysis for distributed options in part-nership with the Eastside and Westside communities that integrate and account for all the flows in the Core Area com-munities. They will also cost a range of potential wastewater treatment systems at Rock Bay.
The wastewater treatment plans are expected to be shared with the public for input in the fall. The plans will provide the detailed costing and “apples to apples” comparison requested by the public and are expected to ultimately form the basis for an amendment to the Core Area Liquid Waste Management Plan.
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It took considerable research, a healthy dose of luck and some divine intervention, but a 140-year-old Bible is back with its original family in England after decades across the Atlan-tic.
Perry Bamji, a member of Oak Bay Rotary, and his wife, Anna-maria, came across the Bible 40 years ago when they were newly married and setting up their home in the English town of Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Searching the local auction for furniture, Annamaria, an art historian, was tempted to pur-chase an “odds and ends” box of books, contents unknown.
Tucked inside, in addition to two titles dating from 1774 and an 1805 dictionary, was a beau-tiful 1874 Bible.
When the Bamjis moved to Canada in 1981, the Bible came with them, first to their home in Kingston, Ont., where Perry, an electrical engineer, taught at Queens University until 2006, when they moved to Fairfield.
As the couple downsized from a larger home into a con-dominium, certain things had to go and the Bible, while much loved, was too big for their space.
A skilled researcher, Anna-maria then set about trying to find the Bible’s original family, starting with the book itself.
“The first page is always the family page. They had taken it
out (when they sent it to auc-tion) but they forgot to tear off the middle pages, which has the marriages, births and deaths,” Annamaria says.
After more than a year combing through Inter-net files, Anna-maria con-tacted a former colleague and historian, John Webb, who still lived in Oxford-shire, asking if he knew any families with the names represented on the Bible’s family pages: Fenemore, Boddington and White.
As is happened, in a com-pletely unrelated coincidence, Webb had in fact met a George Fenemore at an Oxfordshire cancer clinic. Thinking he could possibly be an ancestor of the Fenemore family listed in the Bible, Webb put Annamaria in touch with Fenemore. After conducting a little of his own research in the U.K., Fenemore concluded that the Bible had indeed belonged to his ances-tors.
“[For John Webb] to know
just one Fenemore and for it to be the right one, it was very
strange,” Annamaria says.
The Bamjis wanted to send the valu-able Bible as a gift, and asked only that the Fenemores pay the postage for the 5.5-kilogram book, which they were happy to do, Anna-maria says.
The serendipity didn’t end there, however. Upon receiv-ing the Bible in Oxfordshire, Fen-emore opened it at random to an image of St. Peter. He later told the Bamjis he had been warden of St. Peter’s Church for 40 years. “I have a feeling there is a bit of Divine
intervention,” he reflected in an email.
The Bamjis are pleased the Bible is back with its original family.
“We have enjoyed this Bible in our homes for well over 40 years and it is now returned to its home in the custody of George Fenmore and the fam-ily members who follow him,” Perry says.
George Fenemore, son Chris Fenemore and grandson Ben Fenemore, with John Webb, an historian, Rotarian and family friend of Victoria’s Bamji family who connected both sides of the Atlantic to repatriate the 140-year-old Bible.
Jennifer Blyth/Oak Bay News
Oak Bay Rotarian Perry Bamji and his wife, Annamaria, with a selection of antique books found in a box from auction more than 40 years ago along with a 140-year-old Bible, which has now been returned to its original family, the Fenemores, in England (below).
Research, luck and a little help sends 140-year-old Bible home
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Christine van ReeuwykOak Bay News
The Salish Sea sculp-ture adjacent to Oak Bay Marina speaks to Jocelyn Floyer. It har-kens back to memories of her late son Russell Ney.
Floyer discovered the sculpture while lunching with daughter Tara Ney, who is also
an Oak Bay council member.
“She so quickly got what this meant,” Ney says. “It just went deep into her soul what this piece of art was trying to do.”
Floyer always held a fascination with the First Nations of our province and as a youngster visited the museum. Then based east of the legislative buildings, it boasted a basement full of aborig-inal items.
“I was just drawn, and I was the only person who went down there,” Floyer recalls. Fre-quent sit-ings in her James Bay neighbour-hood of Emily Carr and her menagerie also strengthened that interest.
“They’re so con-nected to their environ-ment, and that’s what this piece does,” Floyer says. “You become connected to the earth, the sky, the water.”
For Floyer, who now lives in Oak Bay, the Salish Sea sculpture by Coast Salish artist Chris Paul connects her to Russell, who died in 2004 of a heart attack. He was 38.
“[Salish Sea] is so him. He was so spe-cial. Every time I look at that [sculpture] he comes through,” she says.
Floyer adopted Rus-sell at five months old, during the controver-sial “’60s scoop,” in which First Nations children were removed from their aboriginal homes. She’d had a miscarriage and simply “had the room.”
“He brought the First Nations energy with him, that connection to the earth,” Floyer says. “We were so lucky to have him.”
“He could sit in chaos and observe and just be present,” added sister Monique Ney.
Russell found his first family and recon-nected with them eight years before his death.
“He did find his birth family too, and went
back to visit traditional lands,” Monique said.
In Russell’s honour, Floyer donated $5,000 toward the bid to make the Salish Sea Oak Bay’s first publicly-owned piece of fine art.
“That sculpture is really like a metaphor for where we are mov-ing forward with aFirst Nations,” said Barbara Adams, arts laureate for Oak Bay.
Salish Sea was origi-nally installed as part
of a pro-gram last summer where art-ists loaned works to display in Oak Bay.
It was the start of a vision for Adams, and the first piece of publicly owned art would kick
off that vision. She envisions an
“art amble” of six art spaces linked by 20 standalone installa-tions.
Earlier this year, Oak Bay council approved the siting where the $24,000 sculpture cur-rently sits, adjacent to Oak Bay Marina, and establish a Public Art Fund within the reserve fund for dona-tions and bequests designated to public art.
Stage 1 involved purchase and replace-ment of the temporary installation pad with an estimated $28,000 price tag.
Funding today is around $10,000. Stage 2 would include an arts space, featuring a performance area adja-cent to the sculpture framed by bench boul-ders and the sidewalk curving around it with an expected $10,000 budget.
“We want to get Stage 1 done before the rains come,” Adams said. “This is the first fine art installation Oak Bay will own.”
Go online to oakbay.ca/parks-recreation/planned-giving/public-art/public-art-fund to learn more about how to fund Oak Bay public art.
cvanreeuwyk @oakbaynews.com
Oak Bay resident Jocelyn Floyer made a significant contribution – in honour of her late son Russell Ney – to help the district purchase the Salish Sea sculpture that adorns Turkey Head near the Oak Bay Marina.
Christine van Reeuwyk/ Oak Bay News
“He brought the First Nations energy with him, that connection to the earth. We were so lucky to have him.”
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Brushing up along Bowker
Fans of many different artistic disciplines enjoyed a picturesque stroll along Bowker Creek Sunday for the annual Bowker Creek Brush Up, hosted by the Oak Bay Community Artists Society.Joan Turner (top) joins the fun for her 11th time, thrilling passers-by with her colourful paintings. Robert Amos (right) demonstrates his technique from a shady spot beneath the trees, while Claire Christinel (below) takes a break amid a bright display of original artworks and art cards.With paper and pastels from Oak Bay artist Bonnie Myers young artists add their creations to the display (below left), while Oak Bay High student Holly Partridge (left) demonstrates her talents during her first Brush Up experience.
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OUR VIEW
Don’t let tree fruit fall to waste
As Oak Bay resident and author and poet Frank Wilson shows on page A7, harvest season has come early to the West Coast. Many apple trees and other garden mainstays are producing bumper crops, yet as with seasons past, that same fruit is often left to fall to the ground to be food for insects and other creatures.
Visitors to Wednesday’s Oak Bay Night Market might have stopped to chat with Emily Thiessen, with Lifecycles, which undertakes the Fruit Tree Project, among their other initiatives.
The project harnesses the power of volunteers to harvest apples, cherries, pears, and other fruit from privately owned trees that would otherwise go to waste. The bounty is then shared among a variety of recipients, including homeowners and volunteers, but also food banks and a variety of local community organizations.
In fact, last year, Lifecycles collected and redistributed close to 30,000 pounds of fruit that would have otherwise gone to waste.
Creating a truly “value added” program, a portion of the harvest is also set aside to make products that help defray costs. Those at the market might have seen the Spinnakers vinegars crafted from a previous harvest, for example. A delectable quince paste from Oak Bay’s Marina Restaurant, with fair trade organic cane sugar from Level Ground Trading, is another popular product.
With such a huge amount of fruit already saved from waste, how much more could be done, with even greater support and more volunteers? Fruit tree owners can register online at lifecyclesproject.ca, however without volunteer pickers, the fruit will remain on the tree – and eventually on the ground.
“Volunteers are the core of our project and crucial to the success of the Fruit Tree Project so we would love for you to come and volunteer...,” organizers say. “Help out in backyards or behind the scenes, and you’ll get to take home fruit.”
Several readers took me to task for last week’s commentary on the beginning of our long, hot federal election campaign.
They pointed out, among other things, that there are substantial cost increases to Elections Canada as well as higher spending limits for the parties. And thanks to generous tax deductions for political donations, taxpayers subsidize all party spending whether they want to or not.
That’s the system as it is today, so rather than rail against it, it seems more use-ful to ask what we’re getting for our forced investment in this exercise.
First, more leader debates. The traditional main event organized by TV networks for Oct. 8 appears to be a bust, with only Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and Green Party leader Elizabeth May expected to attend. Conservative leader Stephen Harper declined, prompt-ing NDP leader Thomas Mulcair to say he will only take part in debates that include Harper.
Harper, Trudeau and Mulcair have agreed to a Sept. 17 debate hosted by The Globe and Mail and Google Canada. This one is to be focused on the econ-omy, which should force participants to get beyond their talking points and pointing fingers.
On Sept. 28 there will be a debate
focused on foreign policy hosted by Munk Debates, a charitable founda-tion. Harper, Trudeau and Mulcair have accepted. May and Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe were not invited to either of these.
The national media have decided that the biggest issue currently is the trial of
suspended senator Mike Duffy, but this has turned out to be a rehash of facts and asser-tions heard many times over by those who care.
The expense account abuse has pushed the issue of senate reform to the forefront. Harper declared his intention to starve the Senate by refusing any more appointments, after most provinces ignored his call to elect their nominees.
Trudeau, having expelled all Liberal senators from the party caucus, has warned that Harp-
er’s plan and Mulcair’s long-standing position to abolish the Senate are both unworkable, if not unconstitutional. Trudeau has promised changes to the senate appointment process, but no spe-cifics so far.
Party policies are being doled out one bit at a time, and the national and local candidate debates may help clarify them. Here are a couple that could use closer scrutiny.
Harper has promised to revive a stim-ulus program from the 2009 economic
crisis, offering a 15 per cent tax credit for home improvements between $1,000 and $5,000. This sounds great if you’re a homeowner, but does nothing for rent-ers, drives up the cost of housing in already overpriced urban markets and encourages more consumer debt.
Trudeau has promised an additional $2.6 billion over four years for First Nations education on reserves, and accelerated spending on school infra-structure.
Mulcair has promised to hold a national inquiry into missing and mur-dered aboriginal women. Mulcair and Trudeau both pledge to reverse the Conservative moves to eliminate what’s left of door-to-door mail delivery, and to extend the age of eligibility for the Old Age Security pension from 65 to 67.
All of these promises are presented in the most appealing way possible by the parties that promote them, and all involve spending and taxation trade-offs that the parties would prefer not to dis-cuss.
Another possible dividend from a formal campaign stretching more than two months is that more voters will pay attention to the real issues and actually take the time to cast a ballot. If that hap-pens, and the long decline in voter turn-out is reversed, it’s a good investment.
Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tom-fletcherbc Email: [email protected]
With more time, will more voters care?
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YOUR VIEW
Thank you Ken Agate.Every year in August, Oak Bay
Village receives thousands of new visitors and thousands of dollars of new business thanks to the con-tinual efforts of one lone soldier putting on the annual Oak Bay Collector Car Festival.
Estimated num-bers are 12,000 to 15,000 people.
This is unquestion-ably the biggest street event in Oak Bay’s history, period.
Held on a Sunday, when there are usually less than a hundred people on the street at any given time, Ken Agate organizes, takes on the risk and foots the bill for the event.
He does this with minimal sup-
port and financial aid from the municipal government.
He started this event when he owned and operated the Blether-ing Place (another institution that
put Oak Bay on the map and it remains imprinted in the memories of gen-erations of visitors from all parts of the world).
Initially Ken had much to gain from
the popular event. Now he does it because he is a genuine commu-nity citizen and a valuable advo-cate of Oak Bay.
As residents and business own-ers, we need to salute him and commend the amazing show he puts on each year.
Thank you to Ken and all the
volunteers that just can’t say no to him, year after year.
Ken, we appreciate you and what you do for this wonderful vil-lage we all live in.
Oak Bay is a better place thanks to Ken Agate.
We can all learn a valuable les-son from him.
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Tweed cyclist missing key piece of safety gear
Re: Travels in Tweed, Oak Bay News Aug. 12
Thanks for a really great photo
on your front page Aug. 12 show-ing so many cyclists flying the flag in their stylish tweeds ... well done all, says I.
But then there always has to be one joker in the pack, doesn’t there ... this time in the shape of a clown who not only seemed to consider himself above the “dress code” but also outside the law that requires all cyclists to wear protec-tive headwear.
What an example to all the chil-dren involved.
I hope the long arm of the law reached out and grabbed him if only in tribute to all the others who donned what is essential for everyone’s safety.
Derrick JohnsOak Bay
Thank you for another great Oak Bay car show
Editor’s note: With his 90-year-old Kings apple tree flourishing in this long, hot summer, Oak Bay author Frank Wilson was inspired to share the following poem:
Let the Apple-Man comeBreakfast coffee breathes bitter-sweet Arabica through my curling tirednessand heavy with Adam’s gift I know that he will be here soon with his sacks and painful ladders.
Spent moon-pennies droop in late heat as children scrabble through Indian summer scrunch-dry shade,til like a mother easing away a babe from her breasteach is love-turned off the bough.
The lunar harvest’s juice-stained shadows remind methat fulsome payment time is herewhen they will be carefully box-packed in yesterday’s newsand I will try to delay my nakedness.
So let the apple-man come, it is time to accept an endingthat I may start the new beginning,as one by one and ten by ten my fine flags float-drop awayand I take my loss to rest.
Bramble-infused jellies will bubble and blow kitchen tastesinto my dreaming winter gardenand I will stand cold empty, bleak yet fruitfully content that once again, the apple-man came.
Frank WilsonOak Bay
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Songhees, Oak Bay come together for canoe welcome and community picnicChristine van ReeuwykOak Bay News
After weeks of sun-shine and dry weather, a warm, light summer drizzle dampened
things enough to cre-ate intimacy for a cul-tural bond between two nations in Oak Bay.
Sparkling sun shone as dignitaries boarded a canoe at Oak Bay Marina followed by a short cultural tour with a Songhees guide before heading to Wil-lows Beach.
“The most powerful thing was it was foggy and the fog lifted. We went on the water and we had a beautiful ride,” said Mark Salter, cultural tourism devel-opment for the Song-hees Nation.
“The very second we stepped out of the canoe to come to shore it started to rain.”
Pulled through the waters by the Song-hees youth racing team ‘Savage 11,’ the canoe held Kevin Murdoch, Tara Ney, Eric Zhelka and Hazel Braith-waite along with MLA Andrew Weaver, Mur-ray Rankin and Oak Bay High student Bran-don Schellenberger.
“This ritual would be repeated often when families came to visit or do business… they
Mother Nature creates ideal traditional ceremony
Talking traditionIn the tradition of creating an oral history, Oak Bay High student Brandon Shellenberger was invited
as a witness to the events that took place so that he could then pass the story along to other youth throughout the school year. When it comes time to celebrate Sno’uyutth, a welcome pole set to be raised at Oak Bay High School this fall, his duty is to regale his peers and cohorts with a detailed oral account of what occurred Aug. 8 on the shores of Willows beach. “Their job is to be a witness. They come, they listen and bear witness to events,” said Mark Salter. “They have an obligation to do well by it. That’s a part of the oral cultural history. That’s how you make sure the stories get told and get told properly. That way this whole event will be told in Oak Bay to a cohort of young people who can tell their families.” “It begins a new tradition.”
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Members of the Songhees Nation bring Oak Bay councillors, MLA Andrew Weaver and federal NDP candidate Murray Rankin to shore at Willows Beach for a traditional welcome ceremony to launch the recent Oak Bay Arts and Culture Festival.
came with good hearts and so were wel-comed,” Salter said.
“The chief spoke very elegantly and at length about the sig-nificance of the event. This was a really good expression of that growing relationship of mutual respect. It got personal … the group got smaller and smaller as the rain got bigger.”
It was a day to drop the Tweed curtain and raise the camas veil, Salter says.
As part of the open-ing festivities for the Oak Bay Arts and Cul-ture Festival that fin-ished Sunday.
“It was a welcom-ing ceremony on the shores of Oak Bay for the first time in over a century,” said Coun. Hazel Braithwaite who served as MC for the day.
“It was probably one of the most emotional and moving things I’ve ever done as a coun-cillor. It was just so meaningful. There were times I was holding back the tears.”
Songhees Chief Ron Sam, dressed in tradi-tional regalia greeted the canoe at the shore-line, the beach by then quite full with resi-dents and guests.
“This is a fairly tradi-tional ceremony,” said Coun. Kevin Murdoch. “It reflects what hap-pened in the times when travel happened by canoe. As acting mayor I asked permis-
sion to come ashore and Chief Sam spoke very eloquently and welcomed us ashore.”
The little bit of rain, drove some people home allowing for a genuine and honest exchange between the community and the people of Oak Bay, Salter said.
By the time the speeches were done, the crowd had dwin-dled to create a more personal setting.
“The rain and the reduced crowd as a result made the pre-sentation and com-ments much more inti-mate and personal and emotional. It was quite powerful. Everybody there was really quite impacted by it,” Mur-doch said.
“It was also recogniz-ing that history with
the Songhees Nation and First Nations on the land and that foun-dation that led to Oak Bay. … Having the chance to participate in that as acting mayor was pretty special. It was for me person-ally a very special moment.”
Perhaps that’s what inspired Songhees elder Joan Morris, traditional name Sell-emah, to present him with a spur-of-the-moment blanket after offering her planned prayer.
“It just happened and I think that’s the most genuine,” Salter said.
Sellemah is the last surviving member of the Chatham Island community, and lived her first two decades on the Island adjacent
to Oak Bay. The Songhees own
Chatham Island and a fair chunk of Discovery Island, which is also the site of a provincial park.
They are not dis-puted territories, but established reserves that have also been home to the Songhees for thousands of years.
The event finished with a performance by the Lekwungen dancers and residents and guests coming to gather for a commu-nity picnic.
“[This ceremony] was a really good opportunity for us to enhance our relation-ship with the Song-hees,” Braithwaite said.
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Look up, way upThe Canadian Forces Snowbirds (431 Air Demonstration Squadron) entertain above the skies of Victoria and Oak Bay Wednesday (Aug. 12). The Snowbirds were performing as a fundraiser for the C.H.I.L.D. Foundation for children with intestinal and liver disorders.
Country classics will meet modern fare as the Lebeau Petersen Family Band tackles The Oaks in a benefit concert this Saturday (Aug. 22) in sup-port of the Sno’uyutth project.
Connie Lebeau and Niels Petersen are veterans of the Canadian music scene. They recently returned to Victo-ria after several years singing together nightly on an exclusive, 250-person cruise ship.
Before that they ran a Victo-ria music school, lead their own bands and played thousands of dates with Raffi, Valdy, Gary Fjell-gaard and other stars of Cana-dian music.
The duo is ably backed by another Canadian music great, Norm McPherson. McPherson’s early career included the band Skylark with a young David Fos-ter. As a studio musician, the gui-tarist has played on thousands of recordings.
For this special concert at The Oaks, the band will be joined by Connie and Niels’ daughter, Dan-ielle Petersen. Danielle leads her own jazz band at Pagliacci’s, and the talented jazz diva’s vocal harmonies with her parents on a repertoire of great country tunes is described as country music heaven on earth.
The 20-foot pole, designed by
Butch Dick and carved by his son, Clarence Dick, is more than two-thirds complete and set to be raised in October at the Oak Bay High School. The Oak Bay Community Association has raised more than $75,000 of the project’s $88,000 budget.
The Lebeau Petersen Band sold out The Oaks for a Janu-ary benefit performance. Coun-try Night at The Oaks starts at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22. Tick-ets are $20 in advance at The Oaks, 2250 Oak Bay Ave., and $25 at the door.
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Wednesday, Aug. 19Not Your Usual Ballroom – Practice gender-free ballroom dancing. Learn non-traditional dance roles. Women can lead. Men can follow. Same-sex welcome; 7 to 9 p.m. in the hall of the Church of St. Luke Cedar Hill, 3821 Cedar Hill Cross
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Victoria Summer Choir – 10th year anniversary concert, 7 p.m. at St. Mary’s Anglican Church, 1701 Elgin Rd. Tickets $20 at the door, or in advance from Ivy’s Bookshop, Russell Books and Long & McQuade. For information, call 250-590-6335.
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The Oak Bay-based fun young adult commu-nity chorus welcomes new singers for its fall season. The non-auditioned group is open to young adults from all walks of life and across the region. Alongside fabulous music, the group builds a community of friends and offers great performance opportunities in an effort to give back to the community.
Rehearsals happen each Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Oak Bay United Church. There is no cost to singers and the benefits are far-reaching – participants build musical and leadership skills, make new friends and grow in a safe fun environ-ment.
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earns national tech teacher awardChristine van ReeuwykOak Bay News
Piano and technology are a powerful duet in learning, says one Oak Bay musi-cian and instructor.
Linda Gould was named 2015 Tech Teacher of the Year at the recent national conference of the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers held in Richmond.
“She is the best music teacher ever. She is so wonderful,” said student Galina Coffey-Lewis.
“I just love my music lessons.” Gould, who teaches from a home stu-
dio in Oak Bay, has offered piano lessons her entire life, most of it as a registered teacher.
The national competition is held every two years with the award presented to the Canadian music teacher who dem-onstrates the most creative use of music technology in the teaching studio.
“It’s a way of us getting together, because teaching piano can be isolated,” Gould said.
“I’ve taught my whole life and used technology. Technology is great if it makes it more fun.”
Gould utilizes digital keyboards, tab-lets, and computers to demonstrate, teach and record students using a vari-ety of music apps.
“It has to be enhancing you and mak-ing you a better musician or don’t do it,” she said. “I started with one little thing … one thing leads to another.”
To apply for the technology award, teachers submitted a three-minute video outlining how he or she uses technology to teach students.
“I’m a techno geek,” Gould said with a laugh.
“There’s so much with technology, you can always learn something.”
For example, she’ll add a little jazz, using the synthesized sounds, instead of a straight metronome to make a tune sounds more exciting and get a student into the tune they’re working on.
“I can’t bring a band in here every week,” she said. “They react to it, they smile, it’s fun.”
Technology is also a handy tool for continu-ity, both covering illness using applications such as FaceTime, and con-tinuing studies through recording devices.
“It’s not the same as having them in the room,” she admitted, but she finds it about 90 per cent as effective, missing only the happy ‘jam session’ portion of a class.
“You come for a one-hour lesson and you hear the first five minutes,” she said of recording classes. “You learn
faster, you learn more. It’s about listening and sharing … not notes on the page.”
Those can be repeated later, when a student has down time or a keen interest in practicing.
Gould also uses a bluetooth pedal in per-formance. It turns the page on her digital tab-
let, providing smooth transition with no rustling of sheet music.
Gould is also the author of the pop-
ular adult method “Play Piano Chords Today.”
Besides teaching at her studio in Oak Bay, classes are taught at the Victoria Conservatory of Music and Taber Music School. Gould also performs as a solo pianist and with her husband and musi-cal partner, Dave Paulson.
Oak Bay piano teacher Linda Gould was named Tech Teacher of the Year at the recent national conference of the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers held in Richmond.
“I’m a techno geek. There’s so much with technology, you can always learn something.”
– Linda Gould
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Perhaps the most surprising thing learned from a session in the treatment room of Victoria Royals head athletic therapist Khore Elliott is how much stock he puts in winning.
“Of course, it’s all about winning,” grins the 35-year-old.
Elliott has been fixing Royals and Salmon Kings since he joined the organization in 2009.
Obviously for Elliott and others of his trade, it’s not truly win at all costs. It’s about getting players back on the ice as soon as possible, and putting them in a position to succeed, he says.
But a recount of his past two seasons at Hockey Canada’s U17 national tournament is measured by wins and losses as much as everything else.
This month, Elliott took his talents to the next level, joining Team Canada’s U18 team for the Ivan Hlinka Memorial international tournament, in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Aug. 10 to 15.
“It’s Hockey Canada, the one [entity] that goes against the stereotypical Canadian characteristics. We’re not there to be polite. We’re there to win, it’s almost ironic.”
Elliott’s one of four Royals slated to work for Hockey Canada this year, as head equipment man-ager Matt Auerbach will join Dave Lowry, U20 head coach, as an assistant equipment manager at the IIHF World Junior tournament at Christmas. And Royals’ team doctor Michael Conrad will work with Canada’s national U17 program.
Hockey Canada uses the Hlinka as a key step in the Program for Excellence national development model, with this year’s win meaning Canada has won the tournament eight straight times.
The eight-team, round robin tournament is split into two pools, with Canada facing the Czechs, Sweden and Switzerland in three straight days.
But it starts even sooner than that; Elliott arrived in Calgary on July 30 for Hockey Canada’s five-day selection camp ahead of their European departure.
“It’s compressed, there’s no other way to put it,” Elliott said. “It’s a much different experience than the regular [WHL] season. If I can get six hours of sleep at night I’ll be lucky.”
In other words, the challenges at the coming U18 selection camp and subsequent tournament are essentially the same ones he faces every year at the start of Royals training camp, but in fast forward.
When he gets back to Victoria this week, he starts all over again as Royals new and old arrive for draft camp beginning Aug. 25.
“You get a lot of kids who don’t know you, and they don’t trust you, and they don’t understand my role. Some will try to keep things from me, not realizing my job, but eventually we get through to them.”
A veteran athletic therapist once told Elliott, the players don’t care what you know, they just want to know you care.
Being in the national program is more than just providing therapy to players. It means chipping in with the equipment manager to fold towels, fetch water and deal with gear, an all-hands-on-deck situation.
Royals’ therapist rolling with Hockey Canada
Victoria Royals head athletic therapist
Khore Elliott is one of four members of the Victoria Royals
to be working for Hockey Canada this
season.Travis Paterson photo
PLEASE SEE: National squad brings connections, Page A15
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It’s even more intense than the Royals’ regular season, when Elliott will usually spend 70 hours at the rink. “It’s a life-style choice. There’s a lot of paperwork and administration, such as insurance, or setting up meetings, things that people don’t realize we do.”
At an international tour-nament such as the Hlinka, Elliott will be at the rink all day. Because it’s summer, he is able to take a break from monitoring the status of Royals players.
If a Royal has an injury or other concern, they can con-nect with one of the team’s two Camosun College student prac-titioners, J.T. Ward, who worked previously with the Victoria Cougars Jr. B team, and Curtis Hawkins, who’s currently with the Victoria HarbourCats.
And Elliott is always a phone call away, just as he was at the U17 tournament which hap-pened during WHL season. In that case, Elliott stayed up until 1 a.m., or later, conferring with the students.
“They’re great, and they can handle a lot, but there’s a lot to it,” Elliott says.
Originally from the Comox Val-ley, Elliott was one of seven in Camosun’s first graduating class of athletic therapists.
He started as a student prac-titioner with the Salmon Kings
under Dave Zarn, who is now on the Vancouver Canucks’ training staff.
By default, being on Hockey Canada’s staff becomes a net-working exercise. He works with the U18 team doctor, coaching staff and equipment manager, most of whom are from teams in the WHL, Ontario Hockey League and Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
Making those connections is vital.
When Joe Hicketts rup-tured his tricep early into his all-important NHL draft-eli-gible season, Elliott learned about it from a surprising source.
“I guess someone from the Edmonton Oilers went through the same injury back in the day, and I was able to talk with Oiler’s (veteran) therapist Ken Lowe when we visited the Oil Kings.”
Typically, however, athletic therapists don’t swap player injury stories, and for obvious reasons. But as a home team, they do try to provide as much as they can for the visiting teams.
“You try to treat other teams
the same way you want to be treated,” he says.
The Hlinka has been Elliott’s third straight year working for Hockey Canada as he worked on the Team Canada Black staff at the 2014 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge in Novem-
ber, and Team Pacific at the World Under-17 Hockey Chal-lenge in Nova Scotia during the 2013-14 sea-son.
The lat-ter team fea-tured Royals’ forward Tyler Soy, defence-man Chaz Red-dekopp and assistant coach Enio Sacilotto.
“The thing about those tournaments is you can prepare as much as you want, but the team will lose by a goal. When that happens, it’s a fast exit. The room is silent. And within an hour or so, the gear is packed and everyone is headed to the airport. That’s it.”
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“You get a lot of kids who don’t know you, and they don’t trust you, and they don’t understand my role. Some will try to keep things from me, not realizing my job, but eventually we get through to them.”
– Khore Elliott
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