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Island Children’s FestivalEntertainer Fred Penner highlights Saturday’s fun day for kids. Entertainment, Page A18
Book store no moreGrafton’s succumbs to electronic age. Community, Page A3
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Brittany Lee/News staff
Longtime Oak Bay residents Mary Douglas, left, and Cynthia Knowlton participated in a rally, on Friday (May 4) to urge Oak Bay council to develop a design committee and monitor what type of homes are allowed to be built in their neighbourhoods.
Protest pops up in Oak Bay Oak Bay residents hit the street to save heritage
Brittany LeeNews staff
Residents in Oak Bay are frustrated with devel-opers building boxy, “characterless” homes in their neighbourhood and want to set up a design committee.
A group of almost 20 Oak Bay residents gath-ered at the Oak Lanes building site in the 1000-
block of Monterey Ave. Friday morning, wielding signs that displayed their frustrations.
“Some developers just don’t have invested inter-est in Oak Bay, they don’t understand the passion for our community,” said Mary Douglas, a resident of Oak Bay for 24 years. We adore our community and they’re destroying it.
The demonstration came after the group was told by council a week ago that there’s “noth-ing” they can do about the situation, Douglas explained.
“That was really discouraging, and we just don’t think there is nothing we can do,” she said.
During last week’s council meeting, about 50 residents convened to voice their concerns to council and asked that a committee be set up to monitor the types of homes being built in Oak Bay.
The residents’ main concern are the “box structures” being built in their neighbourhoods, with little regard or respect to the neighbouring houses, Douglas said.
These new properties maximize the lots by being built “right to the property line,” she explained, and without attempt to save existing trees.
PLEASE SEE: Style at issue for neighbours, Page A17
“Eventually, it’s not going to be the charming, historic, leafy neighbourhood that it was.” - Rennie Knowlton
Tea Party celebrates with a bangLaura LavinNews staff
Oak Bay Tea Party organizers are add-ing some ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ to this year’s celebration.
To help mark the 50th birthday of the Oak Bay Tea Party this year, visitors will be treated to the pop and bang of a fire-works display.
“This is the first one in a long time and
it’s especially because it’s the 50th Oak Bay Tea Party,” said Tea Party Society chair Bill Murphy-Dyson.
The Tea Party does not usually include a fireworks display, but with the assis-tance of the Oak Bay Beach Hotel, this year’s festivities will be extra special.
“Kevin and Shawna Walker of the Oak Bay Beach Hotel are footing the entire bill for the fireworks – even unopened as (the hotel) still is,” Murphy-Dyson said.
The fireworks will fill the night sky at 10 p.m. on Saturday, June 2 from Mary Tod Island.
“It’s a great thing for the 50th birthday of the Oak Bay Tea Party. We’re really excited about it. Mayor and council is behind it, as is the Oak Bay Fire Depart-ment. It’s great of the Oak Bay Beach Hotel to step up to the plate like this,” Murphy-Dyson said.
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Too few customers has spelled the death knell for another Oak Bay business.
Clive and Christine Tanner have owned Grafton Bookshop for just four months, but closed the Oak Bay Avenue shop at the end of April.
On Sunday, April 29, the couple, with son Peter and grandson Malcolm, were carrying shelves from the
basement to a moving van. Jill Grafton had been the
couple’s partner in Beacon Books in Sidney but decided to venture out on her own, opening Grafton Books in 1999. She sold the shop in 2004 to Kathie Walters of Abe Books who sold it to the Tanners and their son, Marc, in 2008. His parents purchased it from him in January.
“We can run many stores but the business just doesn’t seem to be here, unfortunately,” Clive said. “In our view this is the best-looking bookstore in the Victoria area, a lovely store, but we just can’t afford to keep carrying it.”
Christine pointed out that
Sidney is a destination for book lovers, especially in the summer with boaters, but Oak Bay Avenue does not seem to be.
The shop made money in 2008, broke even the following year but has been going downhill since, with the advent of e-readers.
“It didn’t matter what we did: sales, better books. It’s just not here in Oak Bay,” she said.
The Tanners lived in Oak Bay in the early 1980s but established Sidney’s reputation as a booktown in the early
1990s, modeling it on the first booktown, Hay-on-Wye, in England. With the Tanners’ encouragement Sidney now
boasts close to a dozen book stores.
They once owned five shops, but are now down to three. They may open another with what’s left from Grafton.
“Never say never,”
Christine said. “The used and antiquarian book business is so interesting and that’s why we’ve been with it all of these years.”
Grafton Books closes its doorsBook seller can’t hang onto Oak Bay business
“It didn’t matter what we did: sales, better books. It’s just not here in Oak Bay.”
- Christine Tanner
Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Clive and Christine Tanner begin the packing process in the former Grafton Bookshop on Oak Bay Avenue.
Brittany LeeNews staff
Oak Bay Council will establish a steer-ing committee to review the process of implementing a new Official Community Plan.
The committee, to consist of four Oak Bay residents and three Oak Bay coun-cillors, will advise council on select-ing a consulting firm and work with the consultants to develop a detailed OCP review pro-cess.
“This is the first step in what is a very impor-tant challenge for our community, namely to create a common vision for what we want our community to look like in 25 to 50 years time,” Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen said. “It will require hard work from all of us, and thoughtful introspection and debate.”
A call for residents interested in join-ing the committee will be advertised on the municipal website soon, Jensen said.
Council will also put out a request for consultants interested in assisting with the OCP. The consultants will lead the review and present a new plan to council.
“This planning (process) will guide us in making decisions about our commu-nity,” Jensen said.
Council expects to have both the com-mittee and consultants chosen some-time in June, with requests for propos-als to qualified consultants sent out by the end of June, according to Jensen.
The review steering committee will meet with council at least once every two months, according to a staff report presented to council on April 30.
Consultants would be in direct con-tact with council regarding key deci-sions.
The Oak Bay OCP was first developed in 1981 and has not been revised since the mid-1990s.
Council has set aside a maximum $140,000 for consulting services for the OCP review project. The project, which was introduced in March, is expected to be complete in late fall 2013.
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Hungry for a winElla van Neutegem, left, Mari Chambers and Clare Staples study a Hunger Games book while Ben Gregory and Emma Rossum look on. The group was preparing to participate in Oak Bay High school rotary interact club’s fundraiser based on the popular book and movie. The event was a fundraiser for Rabbits for Rwanda, an organization that raises money to buy rabbits and pigs to send to children in Rwanda so that they can sustain themselves, their family and make money to pay for their school tuition.
In an article about residential property taxes in the May 2 edition of the Oak Bay News (Reserve funds will go to new plows and mowers) it was stated that the due date for tax payment this year is July 1.
In fact, the due date is the first business day following July 1. This year, the due date is July 3.
The News regrets the error.
In an article about former Oak Bay resident Trevor Undi drumming up funding for his first feature length film, The Kymera Project, which ran in the May 4 edition of the Oak Bay News (Lights, camera, action), the film title was incorrectly identified.
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Members of the recently appointed deer management Citizens Advisory Council will meet for the first time tonight (May 9).
The 11 member committee, which includes representatives from the commercial farming and First Nation communities, was announced by the Capital Regional District in late April.
“A variety of people with a variety of experiences” were selected, according to Vic Der-man, vice-chair of the CRD’s planning, transportation, and protective services committee.
The committee put out a call for citizens to form a deer advisory council in March, in
response to controversy over how to handle the overpopu-lation of deer, and the number of deer-human conflicts in the Capital Region.
Derman added that he tried not to select applicants who had already publicly voiced their opinions on the issue.
“If somebody said, ‘I’m defi-nitely against this’ or ‘I’m defi-nitely for this’ … there’s prob-ably a little bit of detriment of being on the (deer advisory) committee,” Derman said.
“Everybody will have some personal opinion prior to going in but the hope, for me at least, is that we picked people who would be willing to put that aside, listen to all the evidence, and come up with what, in their view, is the best possible answer.”
Members of the group, with support from technical and sci-entific experts, will help guide the development of a regional deer management strategy.
The group’s first meeting takes place Wednesday night from 5:45 to 8:45 p.m. in room 107 of the CRD headquarters, 625 Fisgard St. Members of the public are welcome attend.
Recommendations to the CRD are due in July.
The group consists of five representatives from Victoria, Esquimalt, Oak Bay, and Saan-ich, four from the Peninsula, and two from the West Shore.
The members are: Richard Christiansen, Wendy Fox, Lisa Kadonage, Sol Kinnis, Terry Michell, Robert Moody, Patrick O’Rourke, Jocelyn Skrlac, Philip Tom, Kerri Ward and Robin Bas-sett.
Of the group three are com-mercial farmers; Fox from Silver Rill Farm, Kinnis, co-owner of urban farming co-operative City Harvest, and Michell of Michell Farms.
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Laptops, iPads, cellphones. There is a treasure trove of goodies ripe for
the plucking from unlocked vehicles in Oak Bay.“These aren’t cheap items. It’s not like some
change or a pack of cigarettes in your console,” said Oak Bay Chief Const. Mark Fisher. “Those are significant things to be leaving on your car seat with your doors unlocked.”
In an effort to educate the public and cut down on the number of theft-from-vehicle calls Oak Bay police respond to, officers have begun leav-ing Lock It or Lose It notes in unlocked vehicles.
The education campaign was recently initiated by two constables who decided Oak Bay needed a program similar to what is already in place in other communities.
The officers went on preventative foot patrols in a South Oak Bay neighbourhood where there had been a spike in thefts from unlocked vehi-cles. In one hour, they found 17 unlocked auto-
mobiles that had valuables in plain site.Each time, the constables signed a Lock It or
Lose It notice and noted the time of day, before leaving the paper in the vehicle, and locking the car up tight.
“They got (the idea) out of frustration,” Fisher said.
In about 90 per cent of theft-from-vehicle cases that police respond to, the vehicle doors were left unlocked. On one night alone, late last month, there were 16 thefts from vehicles.
“No one wants to see people victimized,” the police chief said. “And there’s a very easy way to prevent that.”
The education campaign is meant to serve as a reminder to people, some of whom may forget to lock their car doors, while others may not realize that thefts can happen quite easily.
“I hope it creates some awareness that if peo-ple do come out to their vehicle in the morning and see one of the notices inside and the doors locked, that it’s a bit of a wake-up call – that’s how easy a theft could have happened,” Fisher said.
“’Cause if our guys walk by and open a door, then so can a thief.”
Oak Bay police work to curb theft from unlocked vehiclesPolice Lock It or Lose It program now underway
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Those were three of Rebecca Hansen’s winning answers to the question: “What would change if your government was 75 per cent women?”
In her filmmaking debut, the Grade 8 student from Arbutus middle school addressed the issue of men outnumbering women in in parliament by three-to-one and caught the attention of female MPs across party lines. Hansen’s mixed-media video, “What If…” won Dancing with the Octopus: Women in Politics’ filmmaking challenge on May 1.
“There have been so many issues and scandals and things just don’t seem to be working
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Oak Bay-based filmmaker Sandy Mayzell launched the multi-plat-form media project Dancing with the Octopus – which includes a website, web series, documentary, rock opera and comic book – as a way to engage women over a wide demographic with political questions and political action. Mayzell hoped that by reaching out through its inaugural film con-test, she would initiate a conversa-tion and hear what the world has to say around the underrepresen-tation of women in politics.
“Creativity is key,” Mayzell said. “Asking people to put thoughts together in a creative way helps get their message across better because it’s not just complain-ing.”
Social media spread word of the contest quickly. Dancing with the Octopus received submissions from all corners of the world, including one from Istanbul, Tur-key, where the filmmaker cap-tured images of physical violence
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At 13, Hansen was by far the contest’s youngest entrant. She heard of the opportunity via CBC Radio and crafted the minute-long video on her own, outside of a few “helpful critics,” she said. It was selected by a jury of five Canadian MPs from the five federal parties – Carolyn Bennett (Liberal), Eliza-beth May (Green), Maria Mourani (Bloc), Denise Savoie (NDP) and Wai Young (Conservative).
Hansen will also receive a $500 prize with the honour.
Though the contest was a suc-cess, the next step for Dancing with the Octopus is to promote political involvement – action which begins at the polls, Mayzell said.
“As ridiculous as politics some-times seem, we can change it and we have to show that we’re engaged for politics to ever change,” Hansen said. “I really hope for people to see that we have the power.”
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The Oak Bay Tea Party is on track for this year’s 50th anni-versary event to take place June 2 and 3 at Willows Beach Park. Oak Bay coun-cil approved a $7,000 grant recently and also waived $800 in munic-ipal fees for the event. Mayor Nils Jensen also offered to con-nect organizers with a local producer of recyclable bins whose bins could be used at the event, in order to cut back on garbage removal costs.
“We want people to go green and this is one way to do it,” he said.
This year Jensen will face former mayor Christopher Causton in the two-day event’s highlight, the tea cup race.
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A walk that started off as a way to bring men together to end sexualized violence has become much more.
When the international Walk A Mile In Her Shoes campaign began, male par-ticipants were encouraged to take a walk in high heels to raise money and awareness.
Since the Victoria Wom-en’s Sexual Assault Centre began organizing its own walk six years ago, to coin-cide with similar events held internationally, men have been joined by their families, friends and other community members. High heels are optional.
Last year about 500 attended the walk, an encouraging sign that more people are willing to talk openly about sexualized violence and how it can be stopped, said Quetzo Herejk, the centre’s volunteer co-ordinator and prevention educator.
“It’s a topic that’s really socially constructed that
it’s not okay to talk about or stand up for, so to have people take a stance against sexual violence is always a positive outlook for sure,” she said.
“I think men are social-ized to not talk about sex-ual violence, and so often it gets taken up as a ‘women’s issue’ that women should care about.”
But research shows that it is a community issue, one that needs to be addressed by men and women, Herejk said.
“Part of the event is about thinking, how can we as a community create a com-munity that says (sexual vio-
lence) is not tolerable, that this kind of violence is not okay?”
Walk A Mile In Her Shoes happens Saturday (May 12), in Centennial Square starting at 2 p.m. For details, visit www.walkamilevictoria.com or call 250-383-5545.
So far it’s only been happening in the Comox Valley, but Oak Bay Police is warning about scams targeting seniors. In two recent incidents, Comox Valley seniors were defrauded of thousands of dollars by men posing as handy-men or town officials.
Seniors are the likeliest targets for home improvement fraud-sters, Oak Bay police said. “Since
they’re retired, they are mostly home during the day. They answer their phones, read their mail and are often too polite to negotiate price. Some are alone and more willing to talk to strang-ers,” Oak Bay’s police chief Mark Fisher pointed out.
In one Comox case, a woman gave $4,000 to a man for work he supposedly completed around the house, jobs that were never done. The man went so far as to drive the senior to the bank to withdraw cash. In the second incident a senior was defrauded of $500 by a man posing as a pub-lic employee who said repairs were necessary on her property.
Although contractors knock-ing on your door can be legiti-mate, Oak Bay Police say there are steps to take before signing up for work. Get a second esti-mate from another contractor or ask a friend or family member to look at the contract. Ask for ref-erences and never sign anything on the spot or pay upfront.
Although scammers haven’t hit Oak Bay yet, Deputy-Chief Kent Thom said an older scam recir-culated recently when a senior was called by someone claiming to be a relative asking for cash.
“Seniors are big-time targets for fraudsters,” he said.
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To each his ownThere is an old saying that you can’t legislate good
taste.Whether or not a new home planned to be built
on Monterey Avenue is in good taste is not for us to say.
The owner of the property has decided to build a modern structure, one that takes advantage of the light and includes energy-efficient additions. It is being built within the confines of Oak Bay’s zoning
regulations and bylaws.Some neighbours are
against the project due to the loss of mature trees, and some are worried about damage already caused to adjacent fences
and property. These are significant concerns that should be taken into consideration when building a new home in a fully developed neighbourhood.
Most residents, however, are worried about what a more modern structure built among their traditional homes will look like.
The residents say the newer, more modern designs ruin the character of their neighbourhoods. They are adamant that Oak Bay council set up a design committee to decide what type of designs may be appropriate for the area. But therein lies the problem.
For some, two-storey structures may be acceptable, while others prefer a bungalow. Can a roof line be flat, or must it be peaked? And if peaked, what degree is acceptable? And if we open the door to design, where does it end? Will a committee choose what style of windows you can have, what style of doors? How about the colour of your home – do you still get to choose?
Change, as they say, is inevitable. As the housing stock ages, some older homes will have to be removed to make way for newer homes.
While new construction changes the character of a neighbourhood, it does not necessarily ruin it.
To add to the clichés, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure – more modern homes will include modern energy efficiencies, which is good for all of us. Trees removed will be replaced by new trees and plantings – perhaps more suitable to the local environment than the ones removed. Over time, landscaping will mature and the new homes will no longer stick out like sore thumbs.
We can’t control everything, least of all what our neighbours do. What we can do is create healthy discussion about real concerns such as fences being knocked down or damage to adjacent properties and leave the design ideas up to the owner. After all beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Design is a choice for the homeowner
The B.C. NDP has ramped up its opposition to the proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline.
First the party formalized objections already expressed by NDP MLAs who have spoken at hearings held by the federal review panel along the B.C. coast. Leader Adrian Dix sent an 11-page letter to the panel, then launched an attack on the B.C. Liberal government in the legislature that emphasized the letter’s top objection.
Why doesn’t Premier Christy Clark stand up to Ottawa and protest the abandonment of the long-standing “moratorium and exclusion zone” on oil tankers off B.C.’s north coast, Dix and NDP energy critic Rob Fleming demanded.
Clark’s answer was the same one given for many years by federal and provincial governments. The 1972 federal “moratorium” was directed at offshore oil drilling, not tankers bound for B.C. A separate Canada-U.S. agreement in 1998 calls for U.S. tankers to avoid B.C.’s Inside Passage as they transport Alaska crude oil to refineries in Washington state and further south.
I asked Fleming for documentation that shows tankers are banned from B.C.’s north coast. He said it is “fragmented,” which means he doesn’t have any. Nor does the NDP’s heavily footnoted letter to the federal panel offer any
source for this assertion.This argument flared up in
2006 after Methanex Corp. shut down its Kitimat methanol plant. Instead of shipping methanol out, a practice that was never questioned, it started bringing tankers into the Kitimat port loaded with a liquid natural gas by-product called condensate. From there it is sent by rail to Alberta to dilute oil sands crude. This process led to Enbridge’s proposed double pipeline that would send condensate
east and diluted crude west.The Dogwood Initiative, one of
the multiple U.S.-funded groups that now dominate B.C.’s environmental lobby, rose to protest these early condensate shipments, saying they violate a moratorium on tankers. Wrong, said Don Rodden, superintendent of environmental response for the Canadian Coast Guard Pacific Region. The 1972 moratorium “wouldn’t apply to vessels coming into Canadian ports like Kitimat,” Rodden told the Globe and Mail at the time.
The Coast Guard would be the agency legally required to enforce such a tanker ban, if one existed.
As I’ve mentioned before, there are legitimate arguments against the Northern Gateway proposal. This hippy-fantasy tanker moratorium isn’t one of them.
Then there is the hypocrisy
and pro-U.S. bias that is so clearly evident in the manipulated B.C. debate.
The Northern Gateway pipeline would generate as many as 350 tanker trips each year to and from Kitimat. More than twice that many tankers already sail each year through the Strait of Juan de Fuca, past the Gulf and San Juan Islands.
Many are heading to refinery complexes at March Point and Cherry Point in Washington. These supertankers can be seen sailing past Victoria most days. Strangely, this U.S. crude traffic excites no protests.
Some of the smaller tankers come in to fill up from the Trans-Mountain pipeline in Burnaby, whose operator is preparing a bid for expansion. This attracts protests organized by people paid to oppose Alberta “tar sands” oil.
Where do urban protesters think we get the gasoline and diesel fuel sold at B.C. filling stations? Do they think it’s all made at the little Chevron refinery in Burnaby, the last remnant of refining capacity in southern B.C.?
We could use a serious debate about how B.C. handles petroleum. Instead, we see factually inaccurate claims promoted by U.S. interests to attack Canadian crude only.
Our opposition politicians and media mostly just go along for the ride.
Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com.
‘These supertankers can be seen sailing past Victoria most days.’
Tom FletcherB.C. Views
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Pacheco gets the new water
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Club Water Park last week.
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We were shocked and saddened at the insensitivity of Scott Piercey’s letter (News May 2).
Labelling people “bums” and “hobos” etc. does nothing to solve the growing problem of unemployment and poverty. Rather than calling people names, Mr. Piercey and his friends could help solve these societal challenges volunteering at a shelter or food bank or at an under-funded social service agency.
B.C. has the highest rate of child poverty in Canada for the sixth year in a row. No community, not even Oak Bay, is immune to the widening gap between rich and poor. This is a much bigger problem than pan handlers on Oak Bay Avenue and the solution begins with showing some compassion.
Lynne Milnes and Joseph BlakeOak Bay
Labels don’t solve homeless problem
Re: Civil forfeiture muddies message (Our View, May 4) This editorial is basically filled with platitudes and does a disservice to the
police, whose job is never easy at the best of times.Your suggested alternative to the seizure of the motorbike, that “the
police could better serve their public by ensuring this rider, and other potential daredevils, learn about the very real consequences of very bad decisions,” offers no advice as to how the police might do this.
And you justify your complaint on the grounds “that the public has not heard enough evidence to merit the police taking away the personal property of an Esquimalt mom.” Seems to me that the bike shown on the video and the one the police took away are one and the same. So what else do we need to know?
I wish you could have sat in the same provincial courtroom I did recently. I don’t have the wording of the charge, but the man found guilty had hit and injured a woman. The Crown, as I recall, wanted a nine-month prison term and the defence wanted about four months.
The judge told them he didn’t like either of their solutions because “warehousing” someone for a period of time didn’t seem to him to have – to borrow your words – “a real consequence.” He wanted something that had a sting in it to make it abundantly clear to the man that what he had done was very, very, serious. So he hit the man where it hurts most, in his pocketbook, with a $2,500 fine.
In my view, seizing that bike sends the same kind of message.Bill EllisOak Bay
Bike seizure editorial short on suggestions
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It is not just Murphy’s Law that causes those most in need of an optical correction to experience the most diffi culty getting a quick replacement lens in an emergency situation. Complex, strong or dif-fi cult prescriptions can take longer to make. If you are helpless without your glasses, be prepared for loss or breakage. Whether in the jungle, on safari or on a luxury cruise, the nearest optical lab can be a long way off.
Sunglasses are a must if you are headed for a sunny spot. You can slather sunscreen on your skin but it really stings if you try it in your eyes! Sun-glasses purchased in Canada will generally provide adequate protection from ultra violet light. If you wear prescription glasses, matching clip-ons, photochro-mic lenses (glass or plastic) or separate sunglasses are all good options. Polarized lenses are particularly good if you plan to be on or near the water.
Contact lens wearers should be especially careful to anticipate problems. If you wear expensive custom made contact lenses, you may balk at the idea of buying a spare pair. Disposable contact lenses might provide tolerable vision in an emergency even if not a precise match for your correction. Discuss this idea with your Optometrist.
Contact lens wearers should wear glasses for long airplane fl ights because of the dry air supply. In fact, everyone could benefi t from lubricating drops in these dry conditions. Contact lens wearers should also be aware that some countries have high levels of air pollution and contaminated water supplies so be careful about hygiene. Fastidiously wash your hands before handling your contact lenses. Montezuma can take revenge on your eyes as well as your tummy. Bring your own solutions if you are not sure of their availability at your destination
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By Jennifer Blyth
A new business and an invigorat-ing run through picturesque Oak Bay was all it took to plant
the seeds for what has easily become one of the Capital Region’s favourite running events.
And this year, as both Peninsula Runners and the Oak Bay Half Mara-thon celebrate eight years, the race promises to be bigger and better than ever, says race founder and Peninsula Runners owner Dave Milne.
With its beautiful scenery and the support of then Oak Bay Mayor Chris Causton, Oak Bay was a natural for the race, Milne recalls. As for the half mar-athon distance, “at the time, it was the up-and-coming distance. There weren’t many races of that distance available and we wanted to be a little different.”
From the beginning, the event has been about partnerships – partnerships with the municipality and residents of
Oak Bay, but also with businesses and groups in the Greater Victoria commu-nity. In addition to his own Peninsula Runners, Milne has welcomed 107.3 KOOL FM as the presenting sponsor of the half marathon, 5K and Asics Relay, while the local Help Fill A Dream Foun-dation presents the Kids 2K Challenge and the new 400 metre Fun Dash.
One of Peninsula Runners’ found-ing business principles is to give back to the community, and as part of that, Milne created the Peninsula Runners Athletic Society, which operates the event. “I made a promise to the council of Oak Bay that I would never make money from the race, and I have stuck to that,” Milne notes.
While Peninsula Runners offers a headquarters for race planning and organization, the society ensures event proceeds go to support to both local athletes and local charities, such as the Help Fill A Dream Foundation, the Oak Bay Half Marathon beneficiary which
supports families with seriously ill children, the BC Cancer Foundation and the Arthritis Society.
In addition to financial support, the event offers terrific publicity and the chance for local organizations to get their message out, he adds.
The race has also grown each year, from about 300 participants in 2005 to about 2,000 expected this year, Milne says. For runners, the half marathon distance offers a greater challenge than the 10K, but without the exten-sive training required of a marathon, he explains. “It really doesn’t require that much more training than a 10K. If someone is looking for the next chal-lenge, the half marathon definitely offers that.”
For those who may be newer to run-ning, the addition of the 5K distance presented another opportunity to get more people involved. “It offers a way for runners who aren’t ready for a half
marathon to come out and join in the fun,” Milne says, pointing out that by starting at the same time as the half marathon, but taking a different route, the 5K participants will be finished and able to cheer on the half mara-thoners as they cross the finish line from the longer race.
The relay is another way for runners to participate at shorter distances, with four legs ranging from 4.2 to 7km.
The half marathon early start gets under way at 7 a.m. Sunday, May 13, with the regular half marathon start, 5K and relay following at 8 a.m. The Kids 2K Challenge for those age 14 and younger begins at 10:30 a.m., with the Kids 400 metre Fun Dash for those nine and younger beginning at 11 a.m.
Following the different events, enjoy post-race festivities at the corner of Hampshire Road and Oak Bay Avenue, including food, awards and more.
HOW T0 REGISTER The Oak Bay Half Marathon
registration is paperless – sign up online until midnight, May 9. For those needing help with computer registration, simply stop by Peninsula Runners at 3659 Shelbourne St. Call 250-384-4786 for more information.
Individual registration is $75 until May 9, or $140 for a relay team, $30 for the 5K, $15 for the Kids’ 2K and $12 for the Kids’ 400M.
Race weekend registration, May 10 to 12, is $90 for an individual, $160 for a team, $35 for the 5K, $20 for the Kids 2K and $15 for the Kids 400M.
Race package pick-up – plus late registration – will take place at Peninsula Runners’ Shelbourne Street location on race weekend:
• Friday, May 11 from 12 to 6 p.m.
• Saturday, May 12, from 10 a.m to 6 p.m.
Note that there is NO race-day registration or package pick-up.
Need more information?Visit the Oak Bay Half Marathon online at www.oakbayhalf.com or call Peninsula Runners at 250-384-4786.
Registration deadline is approaching!Come on out for a run! Either go long for the KOOL Half, join some friends on a team in the Asic’s relay, or watch your children in Help Fill A Dream’s Kids Krazy Kilometre. You can’t beat a Sunday morning run with a little fun thrown in! For as little as $10 your child can run free on Oak Bay Avenue and get some KOOL goodies to boot. Run, Cheer, Have Fun!
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Vehicle break-ins continue
Throughout last week, a number of vehicles were broken into with electron-ics, sunglasses and money the target of thieves. Police
encourage members of the public to ensure their vehicles are locked, and expensive items removed from the vehicle or placed out of sight. Most of the vehicles entered were unlocked.
Home and business crime scenes
There were two break and enters in the Oak Bay area last week. A business along Oak Bay Avenue was broken into just after
midnight on May 3. A rock was thrown through the front window and cash was stolen from the cash register. A house in the area of Oak Bay Avenue and York Place was also broken into on April 29,
sometime between 6 and 9 p.m. It appears the culprit entered the home through an unlocked front door and made off with jewelry and a laptop computer. Police encourage homeowners to ensure their doors are
locked when leaving home, even for short periods of time.
Police stop two apparently impaired
On May 3 at approxi-mately 1:45 a.m. a patrol officer stopped a motorist in the 2000-block of Cadboro Bay Rd. The driver was given a roadside breath test and, as a result, was given a 24-hour driving prohibition for drinking and driving.
On May 4 at approximately 9:15 p.m. police received a report of an impaired driver. The driver was subsequently located in the area of Caven-dish Avenue.
The motorist was given a roadside breath test, however the driver failed to pro-vide a proper sample, and as a result, was given a 90-day imme-diate roadside prohibi-tion and the vehicle was impounded for 30 days.
Bowker Creeknot enviro priority in Victoria
Victoria will work with Saanich and Oak Bay to see if the municipalities can craft joint develop-ment permit guidelines for the Bowker Creek watershed.
It’s a move Victoria staff recommended against, mostly because the creek has no open channel within city boundaries, unlike in Saanich and Oak Bay. Victoria’s only concerns in this area relate to storm-water management.
“Other shoreline and land-based areas have been identified … as having higher priorities for consideration as environmental devel-opment permit areas,” a staff report stated.
Victoria council, however, feels the idea is worth exploring and has discussed a pilot project at Doncaster Drive and Hillside Avenue that would daylight that section of Bowker Creek.
On Sept. 22, 2011, Victoria council endorsed the Bowker Creek Blueprint, a 100-year plan to restore the watershed.
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“New homes are great, but (they should) blend in with the streetscape and keep the continuity of the character of south Oak Bay,” she said.
While Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen said he understands the concerns of the residents, council simply does not have the power to regulate the type of houses being built in the community.
“Our Oak Bay bylaws and provincial legislature do not permit council to be arbiters of what is good architecture,” Jensen said. “Once an owner has complied with our build-ing bylaws, they’re free to build what they feel is suitable for their lifestyle and what is pleasing to their eye.”
There is a mix of housing types and styles in south Oak Bay, all from multiple decades, which seem to coexist, Jensen said, adding that these more
modern-style homes repre-sent a “new millennium” or “west coast” style that is seen throughout B.C.
“Modern architecture may offend some, but it does appear to be embraced by many other resi-dents,” he said. “I don’t think there’s neces-sarily a consen-sus on whether they’re good or bad. Owners are choosing to build this, obvi-ously, because they like these styles.”
One Oak Bay couple has become so annoyed that they say they plan to move out of the municipality.
Cynthia and Rennie Knowl-ton, who live on Monterey Avenue next door to the devel-opment, have lived in Oak Bay for 31 years.
Rennie Knowlton said they don’t see any benefits in stay-ing in the municipality if this “overdevelopment” of what he calls “characterless” homes
continues. “ ( D e v e l o p -
ers) are com-ing in here and they’re making it very uncomfort-able for longtime residents to live here,” Knowlton said.
The current bylaws seem to allow develop-
ers to do what they wish and doesn’t give any rights to the residents, he added.
“If the neighbourhoods are going to be infilled with these houses that are rampantly being built without consid-eration of neighbours, then eventually, it’s not going to be the charming, historic, leafy neighbourhood that it was,”
Knowlton said. The latest development on
Monterey Avenue, known as Oak Lanes, replaces a century-old heritage home that resi-dents say was decrepit.
While they knew the house was going to be torn down, none were consulted about the new house being built by developer Method Built Homes.
Residents say they received a letter on April 24, a day before demolition of the old heritage house began.
The letter, which was dated March 31, warned that demoli-tion of the house would begin “soon.”
Knowlton recieved his letter late in the evening of April 24, and by 8 a.m. the next day, the house was being taken down, he said. Three large trees (two birch and one Cedar), all about 18 metres tall, were cut down April 26.
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Fred Penner, one of Canada’s most celebrated children’s enter-tainers, committed his life to the world of entertainment when he was just a young man in the early ‘70s after tragedy struck his fam-ily.
“I had a younger sister, who was a Down syndrome child, she passed away, and a year later my dad died. So in my early 20s I had this intense mortality check and made the decision there and then to attempt to follow my bliss and pursue music as a career,” Penner told the News last week, on the phone from Toronto.
Though he had a formal educa-tion in economics – a career he says he never would’ve enjoyed – his first serious foray into the industry was with a comedic folk band that played in bars and uni-versities.
Penner, who scored a CBC TV show, Fred Penner’s Place in 1985 after half a decade of success writ-ing children’s music, says the core elements of performing with the comedic band – communication,
interaction, participation – con-tinue to help him today.
“We’re in an absolutely messed up world. The insanity is com-plete. The battles that are raging in every corner of this planet are constant,” Penner began, “and the only way, I think, to find a bal-ance in this is through human con-tact.”
That’s why, he said, events like this weekend’s Island Children’s Festival, are important.
“What we need to do is really focus on the kids. Because if we make a strong child, if they really understand who they are and how they fit in the global perspective, in the environmental world, how they interact with each other, then we’ll actually have a chance at affecting the next generation,” he said.
Penner will headline this Sat-urday’s Island Children’s Festival at the Island Montessori House School at 5575 W. Saanich Rd. In addition to music, there will also be kids crafts, face painting, chil-dren’s yoga, storytelling and a bouncy castle.
Penner, who asked that his age not be shared, says he feels like
he’s 30 years old, based on the life, emotional energy and youth-ful exuberance he continues to
exude.Having been a pioneer in the
industry for 40 years, he said chil-
dren’s entertainment has been watered down by businesses look-ing to make money, rather than working on a philosophy of put-ting kids first.
“There needs to be a new level of commitment of work for children and families. It’s not just a matter of getting up and singing songs – it’s essential to your understand-ing of life and how you commu-nicate with people,” Penner said. “Never underestimate your ability to make a difference in the life of a child.”
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All Else Fails breaks the rulesSocially conscious, lyrically poetic, rife with apocalyptic symbolism, All Else Fails is poised to take the world by storm. Playing an aggressively dark blend of punk, metal and rock, this well-established Edmonton-based band breaks the traditional ideals of its genre by producing music infused with experimental elements, incorporating classical music, electronica influenced synth lines and spoken word sampling. This is metal for a new audience, one that’s ready for what’s beyond the ordinary. On the local circuit via their indie label Suicidal Bride Records, All Else Fails frequently shares the stage with some of Canada’s top touring indie acts such as Ninjaspy, Endast, Quartered, Fattooth, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Submerge the Sky and Without Mercy. Find out what all the buzz is about, as All Else Fails plays with Synapse and Two Years and Counting on May 10 at Logan’s Pub, 1821 Cook Street. The show is at 9:30, tickets are $10.
Wendy Skog says her paintings are about coloured lights, the afterlife and the underworld, sex, violence, and fly-ing objects.
In her new show Parade, Energy mov-ing in Space, Scog explores the relation-ship among a full spectrum of colours and shades in an abstract journey that for each canvas begins with no pre-con-ceived destination and evolves toward a point of harmony.
“My work is a kind of wordless medi-tation, transforming mind into matter and expressed as energy moving in space,” she says. “The paintings are an expression of the spirit, energy, con-fusion, surprise, excitement, tragedy, unpredictability, drama and innocence we have collectively experienced through lifetimes.”
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Vic City rowers tops at Brentwood Regatta
The Victoria City Rowing Club fin-ished first place at the recent Brent-wood Regatta at Brentwood College in Mill Bay.
The Elk Lake-based rowing club had 10 first-place finishes, ahead of incum-bent champion Sammamish Rowing Club of Seattle. Hosts Brentwood Col-lege finished fifth.
“I am really excited to see the strong showing for all levels of athletes which
range from novice to varsity crews,” said head coach Albert Van Shothorst.
“Year after year this club has been improving and this time we displayed the skill to push through in the last 250 metres of the race where we used to get passed.”
World Cup rowing team announced
Rowing Canada’s team was announced for the May 25 to 27 World Rowing Cup in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Making the world cup team is a tip of the hat towards Canada’s 2012 Olympic rowing team selection, which happens in June.
From the University of Victoria, Darcy
Marquardt (Richmond) and Rachelle Viinberg (Regina, Sask.) will compete in the women’s heavyweight eight. The Ontario-based crew is the only one that doesn’t train at Elk Lake.
Victoria’s Tracy Cameron and Lindsay Jennerich will compete in the women’s lightweight double, with Cameron hav-ing recently qualified.
The men’s heavyweight eight of cox Brian Price, and Ontario rowers Will Crothers, Jeremiah Brown, Andrew Byrnes, Conlin McCabe, Rob Gibson and Doug Csima are joined by Victoria’s Malcolm Howard and Gabe Bergen.
Brentwood College grads Scott Frandsen and David Calder are hoping for another shot at gold in the pair.
Devils squad has one last chance to win it allTravis PatersonNews staff
Practice is nearly underway at Central Park’s ball diamond when Maddy Creasey begins backing a 1990s gold sedan into a parking spot.
After a few re-adjustments of the car’s angle, a second attempt, and the guidance of a parent on foot, 18-year-old Creasey accomplishes parallel parking success on Vancouver Street.
“Practice is almost over, are you parked yet?” quips a coach.
It’s the start of many laughs as the Vic-toria Devils ’94 girls fastpitch team goes from silly to serious in a matter of min-utes, and falls into a stretching and war-mup routine. Albeit the topic of discus-sion meanders to a History 12 pop quiz on the names of German war leaders, before returning to the baseball.
It’s been seven years since the under-18 team formed, but seven original players
still remain on the squad. Of those seven, Mackenzie Smith and Sarah Chow go back even further, coming from Layritz Little League, where they were first coached by the Devils bench boss Bruce Lubinich.
“It’s the last year together as a minor ball team and it’s been a lot of fun, seven years worth of ‘a lot of fun,” Lubinich said.
During the team’s run it has finished second at the provincial championships three separate times, going on to finish third, fourth and ninth at the 2008, ’10 and ’11 national championships, respectively. To say the team is due to win at B.C.s is an understatement. So with great excite-ment, the team is hosting this year’s U18 provincials, July 27 to 29.
“Last year at nationals we were a first-year (midget) team. We have that experi-ence on our side now.”
The top two or three teams from B.C.s (yet to be decided by Softball Canada) will advance to the nationals in Montreal this summer.
But that’s a long ways away. Two weekends ago the Devils opened
the season at the Softball City spring
classic in Surrey, defeating national team pitcher Jocelyn Cater and the White Rock Renegades.
Up 6-0 in the tournament final, the Dev-ils looked to have the tourney in the bag.
“The wheels fell off,” Lubinich said. “But that’s why you play these games early in the season. It’s good to get those out of the way.”
The Devils are the only minor team playing senior baseball in the Victoria-Saanich Women’s Softball Association this season out of Hyacinth Park. The next midget tournament for the Devils is the Renegades Canadian Pride and Power, May 19 to 21 in Surrey.
Secondary sportsSecond baseman Chelsea Strandlund
is going to New Zealand to play semi-professionally next year and will likely go to the NCAA in 2013. Devils’ Sarah Chow (Utah University), Emily Newman (Frank Phillips Community College), Olivia Tub-man (Graceland University) and Mcken-zie Smith (Stanford University) are all headed to college for September.
Members of the Victoria Devils ’94 midget fastpitch team from left, Morgan Jackson, Chelsea Strandlund, Maddy Creasey, Olivia Tubman, Amanda LeSergent and Mackenzie Smith, stretch prior to practice at Central Park last week. In seven years the Devils have finished second in B.C. three times. 2012 is the final shot at gold.
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James Bay to face Capilano in B.C. rugby championshipTravis PatersonNews staff
The James Bay Athletic Associa-tion is in, and the Castaway Wan-derers are out.
James Bay narrowly edged Burn-aby Lake 23-21 in the CDI Premier League semifinal playoff at Mac-Donald Park on Saturday (May 5). At the same time, Capilano was too much for the Castaway Wanderers in the other semifinal, played at Windsor Park in Oak Bay. The Caps were the hungrier side, defeating CW 34-22.
It sets up a Rounsefell Cup between the Bays and Caps at Kla-hanie Park in North Vancouver on Saturday (May 12), the first time James Bay has played for the B.C. championship since 2009.
“Capilano looks like they could give the Bays a good run,” said Chris May of CW’s coaching platoon. “We made a lot of mistakes, gave away too much possession and (the Caps) capitalized on them.”
If there was a scapegoat for CW’s troubles it was the lineouts. National team fly half Ander Monro consistently moved CW upfield and away from Capilano pressure throughout the match with solid
tactical kicking. But CW’s inability to retain pos-
session at the lineout stood out. CW was down 24-15 when rookie prop Clayton Thornber scored his first try as a premier forward, and brought CW within two points.
“It felt like it was going to be the momentum-changer for a minute there,” Thornber said. “It’s been a
good run. You can’t ask for much more.”
The Oak Bay native was the only CW starter on Saturday who came up through the club’s junior ranks, a promising winger who blossomed in the weight room into a forward. When he got the 10 metres from the Caps’ try line, it was a done deal.
“It’s a great feeling being in
this situation, getting a chance to play with the guys I watched as a youth player.”
Monro led CW with a try, two conversions and one penalty for 12 points, with Pita Savea scoring once and Thornber scor-ing the other tries.
CW does have one team going to the B.C. final as the reserve men’s team won its Ceili’s Cup (Div. 1) semifinal over Burnaby Lake at Windsor Park, 24-10. Sam Powell scored two tries, Mike Dalsin and Sipili Molia scored one each, and Jed Alexander kicked two conversions.
Bays back in finalHistoric rugby club
James Bay is seeking its 23rd Rounsefell Cup, B.C. championship. It’s the Bays’ first crack at the Rounsefell Cup since mak-ing five straight trips from 2005 to 2009, during which the team won in 2006 ver-
sus Velox, 2007 versus Bayside and 2008 versus Meraloma. The ’Lomas ended the Bays’ streak in 2009.
The trophy has since lived on the Island, however, with the UVic Vikes winning in 2010 and Cast-away Wanderers in 2011.
Capilano fly half Charlie Jones, top middle, and Castaway Wanderer Kenny Goodland, right, leap for the ball in the semifinal match of the CDI Premier league playoffs at Windsor Park. Capilano won 34-22 and will face James Bay in the Rounsefell Cup final on Saturday.
Lawn bowlingVictoria Lawn Bowling Club results from
Joan Turner Mixed Triples, May 2 & 3
Trophy and 3 GameWinners: C. O’Marr, R. Smith, J. Delaney
2 Game Winners: V. Creelman, E. Huber, B. MilroyRunners up: P. Reader, D. Whitman, L. Manga
1 Game Winners: T. Delaney, N. Alison, N. PielothRunners up: E. Holmes, G. Middleton, C. Houston
Track & Field Lambrick Park results from Louis Riel
Indoor Invitational in Ottawa, Ont., April 27
Varsity boys100m: Lucas Dellabough, 11.30 (1st)200m: Lucas Dellabough, 23.56 (1st)800m: Ryan McCue, 2:20.68 (2nd)Long jump: Kevin Kuo, 4.51m (6th)4x100 relay: 46.91 (1st) Lucas Dellabough and Evan Guy (combined with St. Joseph, Ont., runners) 4x100 relay: 51.69 (7th) Ryan McCueand Graham Clark, with St. Joseph
Bantam boys100m hurdles: Mike McCue, 17.95 (1st)100m hurdles: Isaac Dellabough, 20.57 (2nd)400m: Mike McCue, 1:06.35 (3rd)
Lower Island Track & Field High School championships at UVic, May 9
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The Victoria News is looking for a skilled advertising designer to join our community newspaper’s production department.
This full time position requires the successful applicant to be profi cient in AdobeCS3: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat on a Mac platform. Experience in web design would be an asset. The position may require shift and weekend work. Creative design experience in graphic arts is preferred, and a portfolio is required. You are a self-starter, team player and are comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment.
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To May 12 – Com-munity Arts Council of Greater Victoria LOOK Fine Arts Exhibition, at the Bay Centre, lower level. On-site working artists and performers daily. FMI: www.cacgv.ca
May 12 – Esquimalt Garden Club presents “Under the Arches” annuals plant sale, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Archie Browning Arena. Geraniums, petunias, impatiens, marigolds, begonias, herbs and herb pots – perfect for Mother’s Day!.
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If we were to try to categorize Jim Douglas by his accomplishments, these pages would be easily fi lled. He was a man who supported himself and his family through his devotion to the motorcycle industry, an entrepreneur having owned his own business and a rider and racer. Helping others was his main criteria.
Working with Bernie Simpson in the Nineteen Seventies at Mullins Marine Jim would recount how Bernie would sell the motorcycle to the customer “then I would take them to the parking lot and run alongside while teaching them how to ride”. A little different than returning to work at SG in 2006 where Jim worked parts and accessories.
A true ambassador of two wheels, in the nineteen eighties Jim opened his own dirtbike shop, selling a new brand of competition bike, a shop where he would magically pull the part you needed from the back or mount your knobby tire for next to nothing just to spend time with you and get to know you. His Dad who also rode would usually be found hanging out at the shop talking about bikes.
A favourite story of Jim, was how he tried to join a motorcycle club in the late nineteen sixties only to be denied for having long hair, even though it barely touched his shirt collar. It made him laugh at the differences between the past and the present. Regardless of the era though if you were lucky enough to deal with Jim you could be assured he would offer you old-fashioned, patient, honest and genuine customer service. Mr. Douglas lived life with his heart, he knew no other way, he was a beacon in time and will truly be missed.
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Operations at Steel Pacific Recycling in Victoria were scaled back Monday follow-ing the workplace death of an employee on Saturday after-noon.
Investigators with Work-SafeBC and the company’s accident investigation team were at the yard in Victoria’s Rock Bay district Monday, while grief counsellors, a criti-cal incident team and com-pany officials met with about 25 yard employees at an off-site location.
“They’re a close-knit team and this was a well-liked per-
son,” Caroll Taiji, the compa-ny’s communications consul-tant, said of the 35-year-old vic-tim, who was originally from Nanaimo. He had worked for the company in Victoria for more than three years.
“It’s really devastating for them,” Taiji said. “This com-pany in that location has existed and operated for over 50 years. They have never had a fatality, so there’s a huge amount of shock.”
The man was killed in an area of the yard where finer materi-als are separated from crushed automobiles, Taiji explained.
“The worker was caught in the machinery somehow and fatally injured,” confirmed
WorkSafeBC spokesperson Megan Johnston. WorkSafeBC declined to release additional details on the cause of death until its investigation wraps up.
Once the B.C. Coroners Ser-vice receives WorkSafeBC’s final report, the coroners team will decide whether health and safety practices in B.C.’s steel recycling industry war-rant a closer look to prevent future deaths in similar cir-cumstances, said Victoria Barb McLintock with the B.C. Coro-ners Service.
The company was quick to note that the worker’s death was not caused by a shredder, despite initial reports.
“In fact, the shredding machine is decommissioned and it’s been closed for over a year, so it hasn’t even been functioning,” Taiji said.
Lessons that can be learned from this tragedy will be shared company-wide, she said. “Any-thing that can be gleaned and learned and shared, will be.”
Company officials could not say Monday when the Victoria operation would re-open for business.
“The management team is very focused on not restoring operations until people are absolutely ready,” Taiji said. “The main focus is the family and the co-workers.”
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