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OAK BAYNEWS
Watch for breaking news at www.oakbaynews.com
The unexpectedYou won’t hear a polka among the tunes at the B.C. Accordion Orchestra concert. Entertainment, Page A15
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Laura LavinNews staff
More public consultation regarding Bap-tist Housing Society’s plans to redevelop the Oak Bay Lodge into a 320-bed facility to house seniors with dementia will begin today (May 30).
Focus Consulting group has organized information stations on May 30 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Oak Bay recreation centre and from 2 p.m.. to 5 p.m. in Estevan Village.
The information stations will be set up on May 31 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Monterey recreation centre – in the lobby in front of the library, and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the front lawn of municipal hall.
Council is deciding whether to approve Baptist Housing Society’s application for height and parking variances in order to redevelop the 247-bed facility – the informa-
tion boards will focus only on parking and height.
Three community input events will follow on June 5 and 6 and 19 with the latter being a special council meeting for public input at 7 p.m. at the Monterey recreation centre. The June 5 event is a residents roundtable from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Windsor Pavilion. The June 6 event is a community associa-tion roundtable starting at 7 p.m. at the Monterey recreation centre.
In addition to the community informa-tion sessions, Focus has set up a website
at focusprojects.ca/oak-bay which includes links to Baptist Housing, the District of Oak Bay and the Local Government Act. It also hosts downloadable material which includes a comparison between the existing lodge and the proposal, traffic assessment, parking, a shadow study, building height adjustments, footprint, viewscapes, Oak Bay’s Official Community Plan and the Oak Bay Lodge zoning.
Oak Bay Lodge details on display today
PLEASE SEE: Decision day set, Page A5
Information stations to be set up at locations around Oak Bay
Who has two thumbs and raised millions for
charity?This guy. David Foster
gives two thumbs up after announcing the community has
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Amusement rides, afternoon kayaking, fireworks, and a face-off between current Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen
and former mayor Christopher Causton in the annual floating teacup race.
These are just some of the activities happening at Willows Beach this week-end in celebration of the 50th anniver-sary of the Oak Bay Tea Party.
While a majority of the weekend’s activities remain the same, members of the public will notice a few additions to this year’s schedule.
For the first time, the Naden Band will be performing at the Tea Party. As well, fireworks, which have not been part of the annual event since 2003, are back, courtesy of the Oak Bay Beach Hotel.
“We’ve had a good formula over the last number of years for the Tea Party, so we’re reluctant to make too many changes,” said Bill Murphy-Dyson, chair of the Oak Bay Tea Party Society. “Why fix a good thing?”
Murphy-Dyson, who first got involved organizing the Tea Party in 1989 and has been the society’s chair since 1994, guarantees that everyone will have a good time.
After months of planning, Murphy-Dyson and fellow society members, say seeing everybody having a good time is their favourite part.
“(I look forward) to just see it all come together and everybody having a good time and the service clubs mak-ing money for their charities.”
Another addition to this year’s festivities is a kayak res-cue demonstration by the Oak Bay Sea Rescue Society on Saturday, as well as a “yoga on paddle board” demonstra-tion presented by Pacifica Paddle Sports.
Also, as part of Jensen’s first Tea Party as mayor, he will be going against Causton in his first floating teacup chal-lenge. Causton has 15 races on Jensen.
“I certainly am up to the challenge,” Jensen said. “I’m just contemplating how to stay afloat.
“(My) strategy is to watch him to begin with and then try to emulate what he’s done and then just do it faster and better,” he said with a laugh.
Murphy-Dyson warns the teacup can be “very easily tipped.” However, no one has sunk their teacup since David Hahn, former CEO of B.C. Ferries, sank his about
five years ago.The goal of the teacup race is
not to tip the cup and to make sure the cup goes in the right direction, he said.
Sink or swim, Jensen seems excited for the festivities.
“It’s going to be a great week-end, as we celebrate the anni-versary of a fantastic 50 years,” Jensen said. “Every year new things have happened and they’ve grown, so this is going to be a special celebration.”
For more information, or to see a full schedule of events, see oakbayteaparty.com.
50OAK BAY TEA PARTY CELEBRATES YEARS WITH FUN AND FIREWORKSParade, fireworks, epic battle between mayors all part of the action
Sharon Tiffin/News staff
Former Oak Bay mayor Christopher Causton and present Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen have a cup of tea and size each other up as they prepare for the big teacup race against each other Sunday at Willows Beach.
Tea Party HighlightsSaturday, June 2:■ Tea Party kick-off with the Oak Bay High concert band, 12 p.m., followed by opening ceremonies, 12:30 p.m. ■ Oak Bay Sea Rescue Society kayak rescue demonstration, 1:30 p.m.■ Yoga on the water demonstration by Pacifica Paddle Sports, 1:45 p.m. ■ Kayak rides by donation, from 12 to 4 p.m.■ Fireworks at 10 p.m.
Sunday, June 3: ■ Bathtub races, 1 p.m. ■ Skydivers and air show, 2 p.m.■ Floating teacup challenge, 4 p.m.■ Naden Band performs, 4:30 p.m. ■ Midway at Willows Park opens from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday.
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More information will go to residents within 250 metres of the devel-opment in the mail some-time in June.
A balloon test, which is designed to give a visual representation of the height of the proposed building, will also be held.
According to the con-sultant’s timeline, council should make a decision on the Development Vari-ance Permits allowing a higher building with fewer parking spaces on June [email protected]
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Decision day set
Brittany LeeNews staff
Riding a bike through down-town Victoria may seem like an intimidating task, but members of the Oak Bay Active Trans-portation Advisory Committee say it doesn’t have to be.
Advisory members will host four guided bike rides from various locations in Oak Bay to downtown Victoria on Thurs-day and Friday morning as part of Bike to Work Week, which started on Monday (May 28).
Their goal is to introduce cyclists to the more attractive, less intimidating bike routes in
the area, as well as to provide support and advice to new rid-ers, according to Greg Miller, one of 11 members of the com-mittee.
“The fact that (Oak Bay is) within five kilometres of down-town, of UVic, of the major des-tinations (in Greater Victoria), is really important,” Miller said. “It’s in a corner of the region where there’s not a lot of cut-through traffic.”
For those afraid of cycling down busy roads such as Fort Street or Pandora Avenue, qui-eter, wider and flatter streets are all reasons why Oak Bay is a good place to bike, Miller said.
Getting riders familiar with routes that are convenient and that they’re comfortable with will hopefully encourage them to become regular cyclists.
The group will lead cyclists, including Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen and Coun. Michelle Kirby, downtown via routes through Richardson and Hault-ain streets, both of which Miller frequents.
“I actually take both of those routes, depending on whether I’m dropping off my kids (at school),” he said.
The committee’s purpose is to look at both long-range and immediate ways to improve active transportation in the municipality. But that can’t be done without public input, Miller said.
“This is a great opportunity to get some public input and just draw awareness to what the committee’s doing.”
Cyclists pedal through hidden Oak Bay streetsFind bike-friendly routes for Bike to Work Week
Guided bike tours:■ Thursday, May 31, at 7:30 and 8 a.m.: Departing from Carnarvon Park near the tennis courts (Henderson Rd., near Townley St.), and travelling along Haultain Street, ending at Centennial Square. See detailed map at www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/95665765.
■ Friday, June 1, at 7:30 and 8 a.m.: Departing from Oak Bay Recreation Centre (Bee St.), travelling along Richardson St., finishing at the Greater Victoria Public Library Central Branch on Broughton St. See detailed map at www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/95666611.
Brittany Lee/News staff
Greg Miller from the Oak Bay Active Transportation Advisory Committee, left, Oak Bay Coun. Michelle Kirby and Gerald Smeltzer, committee chair, all regular cyclists, take a breather outside Oak Bay rec centre on Friday afternoon. The committee is hosting a series of guided bike rides from Oak Bay to downtown Victoria during Bike to Work Week this week.
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The Greater Victoria School District secretary treasurer retires next month and the district has no plans to fill his position.
When George Ambeault steps down mid-June after 13 years at the district books, his position will go un-posted. Greater Victoria superinten-dent John Gaiptman and asso-
ciate superintendent Sherri Bell will take over his duties, while Ambeault will remain an advisor as needed.
“We’re looking at some tough times next year and whether George’s duties can be done this way,” said board of education chairperson Peg Orcherton. “If not, we’ll have to reassess.”
The cost-cutting move requires Gaiptman to report out regularly to the board, ensuring duties aren’t missed.
Ambeault, 65, will remain in the field of education part-time. He has accepted the position of executive director of the Educational Resource Acquisition Consortium, a
group representing several boards of education in B.C., united for the purpose of large resource material purchases.
He calls the shift in gears
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Ambeault came to the dis-trict by way of Waterloo, Ont. in 1999, where he had been the superintendent of business for the Waterloo Region District School Board since 1994.
He praised the efforts of Orcherton and her predeces-sors around the board table.
“It’s a real pleasure to work with them, but with sorrow I leave these people who have had not just an impact on my life, but on the lives of the stu-dents in their district.”
Administrative duties to be shared between existing staff
SD 61 secretary treasurer steps down
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POLICE NEWSIN BRIEF
Stop sign’s there for a reason
A 17-year-old male driver was slapped with a $167 fine last week after police say he sped through a stop sign, skidded across Lands-downe Road and smashed into a rock wall and a tree.
The teen failed to navigate a right turn onto Lansdowne Road from Nottingham Road on May 21 around 9 p.m.
The front end of the vehicle was severely damaged, and the air bags were deployed.
Clothing trail doesn’t lead police to suspected thief
From used clothing to cash to an iPhone, Oak Bay police are investigating a host of recent thefts.
Officers were called to
investigate a trail of clothing, from Byron to Fort streets along Foul Bay Road, left behind by a would-be thief at 9:20 a.m. on May 21. All of the clothes taken from an unlocked storage bin behind a consignment shop on the Avenue were recovered.
The same day at 5 p.m., a suspect walked away from a ground-floor apartment unit in the 2000-block of the Avenue with an undisclosed
amount of U.S. and interna-tional currency, jewelry and a pocket watch. Investiga-tors say the thief entered through a living room win-dow.
Later that night someone smashed the front pas-senger window of a vehicle in the in the 2100-block of Windsor Rd. and snatched an iPhone sitting in plain sight.
Police levy fines, issue driving suspension for booze infractions
Drinking alco-hol proved to be an expensive lesson for several people in Oak Bay last weekend.
Two men were fined $230 for consuming liquor in a public place at Cattle Point on Sat-urday at 8 p.m.
An hour later three female minors were found with bottles of liquor and cider in a parked vehicle in the gravel parking lot at Oak Bay High. They were ticketed $230.
A police roadblock netted a novice driver with a 0.17 blood-alcohol level on Sun-day at 1 a.m. Police say the driver, who was stopped in the 2200-block of Cad-boro Bay Rd., admit-ted to drinking one beer earlier in the eve-ning.
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With ongoing pipeline and oil tanker skirmishes, and a hot summer for mining and
logging still to come, the green war in B.C. shows no signs of slowing down.
Things are already hot in the Fraser Valley, where the federal government’s change to the definition of fish habitat has opened a new front on the farms.
Farmers briefly got into the public discussion by hauling a couple of cute calves into downtown Vancouver and staging a television-friendly demo in front of the federal fisheries office. They have been saying for decades that imposing salmon stream regulations on drain-age ditches around their fields is impractical.
Fraser Valley Conservative MPs Randy Kamp and Mark Strahl even had the nerve to meet with local mayors to hear their concerns about B.C.’s most productive farm-land, without inviting self-appointed “activists.”
Arrayed against them is an environmental lobby whose deep green wing was defined by Marvin Rosenau, a former provincial biolo-gist who now teaches “fish, wildlife and recreation technology” at BCIT.
“Mark Strahl is leading the charge of eco-fascists intent on making the last dime off the backs of the last remnants of an absolutely spectacu-lar ecosystem,” Rosenau told the Chilliwack Progress.
“A massive and productive flood-plain of fish and aquatic values … has been drained, ditched, tiled and
laser-leveled for agricul-tural profit.”
The same could be said for the broad fields of Richmond and Pitt Polder farms north of the Fraser, a wetland diked and drained by Dutch settlers after the Second World War. Farms are “industrializing the land-scape,” said Rosenau, who stopped short of call-ing for them all to be shut down.
At the provincial level we have a new Animal Health Act, which threatens heavy fines or even jail time for prematurely leaking reports of serious animal disease outbreaks.
This was also portrayed as a jack-booted sellout of the public’s right to know, putting the business inter-ests of land and ocean farms ahead of public safety.
Here’s what’s really happening. As is generally the case with meat inspection and livestock issues, the federal government is imposing rules on provinces in the wake of avian flu and “mad cow” outbreaks. Canadian beef was banned in 30 countries after a single infected cow was identified in Alberta in 2003.
B.C. Agriculture Minister Don McRae assures me this legislation will not result in reporters or envi-ronmental activists being thrown in jail for telling the public about
sick animals. They and the farmers themselves can say all they want, once infections are confirmed and quarantines established.
McRae and Paul Kitching, B.C.’s chief veterinarian, pleaded for the public to understand that any farm reporting system must rely on vol-untary compliance by farmers.
When the B.C. government took the advice of B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham and began releasing fish farm inspection data in 2010, the operators stopped providing sam-ples voluntarily. The fish farmers’ position was that you can have a co-operative system of farm inspec-tions or one that’s imposed, but not both.
Imposing inspections on land farms across B.C.’s vast area is even less practical. Former Alberta premier Ralph Klein famously observed that the next rancher to find a possible mad cow should have “shot, shoveled and shut up” rather than file a report and devas-tate the industry.
Denham, the NDP and oth-ers appear to operate under an assumption that there should be sufficient government resources to sample and inspect every farm across B.C. for reportable conta-gious illnesses. This is similar to the fashionable notion that we should have enough park rangers to guard every cedar tree.
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Stars shine for Foster charityWhile the event was supposed to help cel-
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25th Anniversary Miracle Weekend went off without a hitch otherwise and raised more than $4.6 million for the foundation, which supports families with children in need of organ transplants.
And if that was not enough, Kevin Walker, owner of the Oak Bay Beach Hotel and his wife, Shawna, have pledged to raise $2 mil-lion over the next 10
years for the foundation through proceeds from ticket sales to the David Foster Foundation Theatre, to be located in the new hotel.
Greater Victoria played host to a smorgasbord of stars and icons during the weekend, including Wayne Gretzky, Rick Hansen, Michael Bublé, Sarah McLaughlin, Sinbad, Ruben Studdard, Josh Groban, Muhammad Ali and the Canadian Tenors.
The weekend included two star studded dinners, an auction and a concert, giving Greater Victoria locals plenty of opportunity to, if not rub shoulders with, see their favourite singers and stars.
On Friday, Foster was honoured with a little bit of real estate as a pathway running from Ogden Point to the Johnson Street Bridge, and eventually to Rock Bay, was dubbed David Foster Way.
Bublé, a longtime friend of Foster, who referred to him as a “father-figure” was the impetus behind the naming project, and claimed to have driven Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin nuts with his enthusiasm for the project.
In his acceptance speech, however, Foster attempted to one-up Bublé by telling Fortin, in front of the crowd, that “the city deserves a beautiful per-forming arts centre right on the water.”
He followed that up with the statement: “Mayor, I’m going to be on your ass for the next 10 years.”
Give the guy a pathway and he wants a perform-ing arts centre.
Which, of course would be great, if not for the fact that the residents of Victoria likely aren’t in a position to foot the bill for a performing arts centre located on the waterfront.
Foster and friends are quick to put their money where their mouths are when it comes to charity, but would they do the same for the arts in Victoria?
Producer eyes waterfront arts centre in Victoria
Tom FletcherB.C. Views
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LETTERS
I am rather impressed with how various letter writers and Mayor Nils Jensen have managed to change the conversation around the recent raft of home demolitions from one of heritage preservation and the reduction of property values to existing homes, to a discussion about how retrogrades who dislike West Coast home design should keep quiet; and how people who wish to speak about preserving Oak Bay’s architectural heritage are comparable to bigots who could have shunned Jensen’s family for being incomers back in the day.
I’m particularly impressed by that last bit of smoke and mirrors: our mayor is not Crown Counsel for nothing.
In fact what residents of Oak Bay are concerned about is not “the way they decorate their homes or what their paint colour should be.” My 12-year-old-son saw right through that argument (Letters May 16).
What we are concerned about is losing our views as houses go up which maximize
the available footprint (the allowable footprint having been expanded only last year).
We are concerned about not looking at trees and sky any more, but looking at a wall instead. We are concerned about our properties being devalued as houses go in which block the light to our homes and gardens. We are concerned about damage to our homes from blasting and from older plantings being undermined as new foundations being dug rip through roots.
Personally, I don’t mind West Coast style houses, though I’m not convinced they belong in a neighbourhood where the housing stock is primarily from the first half of the last century. I feel the same about parts of Fernwood, Fairfield and James Bay.
A repeal of the Floor Area Ratio would allow us breathing space to consider what sort of community residents want.
Liz BelstenOak Bay
I, like many, get raised eyebrows when I say that I live in Oak Bay. “Oh, you must be rich,” is the reply from most, but since moving here 10 years ago, my reply has always been, “Oh, but if you knew the people of Oak Bay, you would love the place as much as I do and part of its charm is that, yes, there are wealthy people but there are people like me too, lower income with small houses.”
Oak Bay is diverse and that’s what I love about it. The front page dated May 9, yet again encourages the stereotype that Oak Bay people are a “certain type” and if you don’t agree with what we like, you shouldn’t move into “our” neighbourhood.
This group says they don’t want modern box houses built in Oak Bay. I have a small, 1950s postwar house and my neighbours down the street have a beautiful 1912 house. Do you think when my house was built after the Second World War, perhaps by some well deserving veteran who fought for our freedom, that the neighbour in the 1912 house complained that my house wasn’t the same style as theirs? That they said, “We don’t want one-level, box-like houses in our neighbourhood?” Perhaps, mine was a vacant lot and the 1912 homeowner sold the land to the person who built my 1953 house thereby sharing the beauty of the Oak Bay with them. How times have changed.
I love the fact that there is an eclectic mix of houses on my street. The style of house often reflects the personalities of the people living in them and if they like modern, why shouldn’t they have a modern looking house? Having lived in two other countries and having witnessed the segregation of classes and religion it made me appreciate more than ever what it means to be a Canadian and to embrace our diversity.
How intolerant we’ve become of people who have different tastes than we do. How sad to think that we want people to conform to our tastes in building structures.
There are areas of Victoria where the houses all look the same; Broadmead and the new Westhills Development come to mind. Frankly, I like the fact that all the houses on my street are different, as are the people, and they are wonderful.
As long as the building meets safety codes, height restrictions and all the other requirements that the Oak Bay town hall sets, can’t we all just learn to be more tolerant and share the beauty and privilege we have in living in Oak Bay?
My only complaint as an appreciative Oak Bay resident, is that it could be a little warmer. My son said to me the other day, “Mom, if we could move Oak Bay with all my friends to Arizona, I’d be really happy.”
Margo BrodyOak Bay
I would wager that 100 years ago, the local First Nations found our European style homes very out of place in the neighbourhood.
Thankfully, they were not architectural elitists, and tolerated the new dwellings without making a fuss or picketing.
You can rest assured that Samuel Maclure and Francis Rattenbury did not try to imitate older designs. They were on the cutting edge of their art. Were they
alive today, they would not be designing homes to look as though created in a bygone era.
It’s important for new homes to fit in. However, this is a matter of size and scale, rather than style. There are homes representing every decade in Oak Bay. Trying to imitate the past is simply architectural stagnation.
Richard BruntVictoria
Re: Resident’s upset with mayor’s tolerance message (News May 18).
I would just like to add my support for individuality and diversity.
I would think that with all the rules, controls, and bylaws already in place, that as individuals we are already overwhelmed with laws on what we can and cannot do on our property.
I, for one, would not want others deciding what is best for the design of my new family home. I fully support the mayor’s
statement on Oak Bay priding itself on being a welcoming and diverse community and am shocked that people would think that they should be able to decide what is the best house design for me to live in.
There are more than enough decisions made on our behalf when living in any community.
If everyone was the same, the world would be a boring place.
Debbie FlintOak Bay
As the developer who sparked the “protest” of some 20 people on Monterey Avenue recently, I have read of the developing debate with a keen interest.
The home we are developing at 1058 Monterey Ave. (one of several modern homes in the immediate neighbourhood) is a testament to West Coast modern architecture and, though insufficient to some, efforts were made to blend this progressive design into the existing streetscape.
We at Method Built Homes, like many developers, respect diverse views, perspectives and esthetic/architectural tastes. Diversity, in all spheres, has marked the upward progression of humanity in the sciences, the arts, in culture, in political discourse and even in architecture.
Though it is true that Oak Bay exhibits some fine examples of late 19th century
arts and crafts architecture, to label Oak Bay as a quaint “British” neighbourhood monopolized with arts and crafts architecture is incorrect.
The municipality exhibits a broad array of architectural styles built over the decades.
Increased diversity in Oak Bay’s demographics has also meant increased diversity in, amongst other things, its architecture.
This diversity, though disappointing to some, ought to be appreciated and encouraged.
As we make our way well into the 21st century, our major metropolitan centres are evidence of a strong, vibrant diverse society.
We should applaud this movement and appreciate it when it occurs in our own neighbourhoods.
Rajinder S. SahotaMethod Built Homes
I am writing in regard to the articles and letters in the Oak Bay News on the subject of style of new houses.
Stating that overpowering houses are a matter of taste is the easiest way of denying the problem. If we continue this way, Oak Bay will loose the tradition of building that is a part of our unique landscape.
One example is a house on Barkley Terrace. The previous house, demolished just a few years ago, was part of a rocky sloping site with winding pathways around the house which blended in well with the natural rock formation.
The present owner shaved a million year old geological formation and filled the leveled ground with a large house of rectangular shapes with an entire level as a garage for a collection of antique cars. What would you call it: taste or crime?
Are we allowed to keep building similar large containers? Or shall we have a
broader vision and adapt the house to the local landscape? The municipality should implement size constraints so new houses will blend better into their surroundings. And where is the concern for energy issues? If a new house or commercial building is built, solar panels should be added at least for hot water.
If building regulations will not change, our time frame will show up in the history as a square minded period to put it mildly.
There are new houses, some with a very modern design, built with sensitivity to the surrounding, but many look like cancerous growths and often built for resale in a few years.
I hope the municipality will open its eyes to the growing problem and revise the existing building regulations before Oak Bay loses its distinctive character.
T. LielupeOak Bay
Homes need breathing room
Times have changed
Appreciate diversity
Put out the welcome matThink about style over size
New homes should adapt to the landscape
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After public outcry over proposed plans to close some roads to vehicles in Beacon Hill Park, more modest changes are in the works.
People were fearful of the unknown, said Coun. Charlayne Thornton Joe.
After reading the original plans, people thought “I can’t go here now,” she said Thursday at a city environ-ment and infrastructure commit-tee meeting. “We’re saying ‘yes you can.’”
Last year, staff recommended per-manent closures of some sections of roads that run through the park. The closures have been scaled back and cheaper, temporary measures such as bollards and signage have been proposed.
The main changes now proposed entail removing parallel parking along Arbutus Road – at the foot of Quadra Street – except for evenings and week-ends; closing Bridge Way at the wash-rooms, but adding 15-minute parking
stalls for seniors and young families; and closing Heywood Way between the cricket field and Circle Drive.
The road closures are mainly intended to prevent drivers from cut-ting through the park.
“This is meeting the concerns half-way,” said Doug DeMarzo, manager of parks planning and design.
It keeps the spirit of the original plan, to make the park as friendly as possible to pedestrians, while main-taining vehicle access to all the park’s major amenities.
In March, council directed staff to cut the project’s budget from $530,000 to $25,000.
The new “bare bones” plan has nixed a proposed perimeter trail, upgrades to the parking lots and other esthetic improvements.
Pending final approval by council, the parks department hopes to get started in July. From July through November, parks staff will survey the public about the changes. The results will determine whether the changes are reversed or maintained, and
Reduction in park traffic soughtNew plan sees scaled-down alterations to Beacon Hill Park area roadways
Courtesy City of Victoria
A map showing the proposed changes for traffic flows through Beacon Hill Park. Dotted lines show proposed road closures, the biggest of which would be Heywood Way, which runs past the cricket pitch.
Don Denton/News staff
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Now that Victoria’s Inner Har-bour walkway belongs to David Foster, at least in name, the Saan-ich-raised star intends to wield his influence.
“The city deserves a beauti-ful performing arts centre right on the water,” Foster said, at a surprise, star-studded announce-ment in front of the Fairmont Empress Hotel on Friday after-noon. “Mayor, I’m going to be on your ass for the next 10 years,” he said, turning to Dean Fortin.
Foster was joined by Michael Bublé, Pamela Anderson, Rick Hansen and other stars from B.C. to unveil a pathway sign in his name.
The newly-named David Foster Way runs from Ogden Point to the Johnson Street Bridge. Even-tually, the city plans to extend the walkway to Rock Bay. The idea for the naming came from Bublé.
“Mayor Dean Fortin, I drove him nuts,” said Bublé. I called him about a year and a half ago and told him that I believe David represented this city so well and he’d made a huge impact on cul-ture and I said that it was about time that Mr. Foster had a street
named after him.”Foster called the honour much
bigger than a Grammy.“This is right up there, hon-
estly, with the birth of my chil-dren,” he said.
With a little prompting, three of the four Canadian Tenors on hand for the unveiling gave an impromptu performance of Hal-lelujah for the crowd.
In the audience were Foster’s extended family, including sis-ters, kids and grandkids.
Foster said he plans to retire in Victoria. He concluded with this thought: “Thank you again to all of Victoria. I wave the Victoria flag every day of my life, I prom-ise you I do. You can hold me to task on that.”
Singer Michael Bublé, left, smiles after assisting song writer and producer David Foster, centre, unveil a street sign during a ceremony in which the city named its Inner Harbour waterfront pathway David Foster Way in honour of the Victoria native. Looking on at right is Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin.
With some corporate donations still to be tal-lied, the David Foster Foundation’s Miracle Week-end has brought in $4.6 million for the music star’s charity.
“Victoria proved once again it is a hometown like no other,” said foundation CEO Mike Raven-hill. “A weekend event that was just 12 months in the making, kicked off by (Oak Bay Beach Hotel owners) Kevin and Shawna Walker, has set the stage for another 25 years of our foundation.”
Money raised will go toward providing financial support to Canadian families with children in need of life-saving organ transplants.
The event, held at the Fairmont Empress and Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre, saw 29 people
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On Friday night, 300 people walked up the car-pet at the Empress to have dinner and enjoy an intimate concert with Foster, where tickets sold for $500.
Premium tickets for Saturday night’s arena per-formance – which included a gala dinner and a live auction – went for $1,000. The event attracted 700 people. Another 4,130 people attended the con-cert, shelling out between $75 and $250 per seat.
Onlookers hoping to get a glimpse of the stars crowded around the entrances to both venues. The traditional red carpet became purple for both events, matching the colour scheme for the week-end. The event was also supported by 150 volun-teers.
Victoria honours David Foster
Miracle Weekend raises millions
RCMP Corporal Manon Chouinard, left, and Sarah McLaughlin pose for a photo; Pamela Anderson stops for a chat on the purple carpet Saturday evening.Sharon Tiffin/News staff Ken Sakamoto photo
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There will always be a time and a place for the Central Euro-pean genre of music so closely associated with the accordion.
But it’s the wrong association to make to the B.C. Accordion Orchestra, says conductor Alek-sandar Milojevic.
“Our shows are a lot of fun and our musicians are some of the best in the world, it’s some-thing people who haven’t seen us won’t realize.”
The Victoria-based orchestra, which draws on musicians from the Island and beyond, is hold-ing its annual concert in the Alix Goolden Hall on Thursday (May 31). The performance is full of surprises as it moves through the classical, tango, jazz, ethnic and pop genres, the latter being the only type of music to start with a ‘P.’
“We have returning mem-bers of our audience, who know what to expect, which means they don’t know what to expect, except for great music,” Milojevic said.
A former player himself, Milojevic will lead a dozen accordions through the various arrangements.
Thursday is also the accor-dion society’s campaign kick-off for the Coupe Mondiale in August 2013, when the world’s biggest accordion event comes to Victoria.
“It’s going to be a major event, bringing hundreds of the world’s top accordionists and thousands of spectators to Victoria.”
It’s the first time the Coupe Mondiale, the most prestigious accordion competition of inter-
national scope which takes place each year, will come to Canada. Last year it was in China and this year it’s set for Italy. Milojevic is hard at work netting major sponsors for the event, and is in meetings with the ministry of community, sport and cultural development in planning for the event.
Even sooner, however, is the Victoria Accordion Festival from July 19 to 22. Also an interna-tional event, though not to the same scale as the Coupe Mondi-ale, the accordion festival show-cases a series of popular bands that feature an accordion.
For those who have not experi-enced the range of what a group of accordions can accomplish in concert, tomorrow night’s show is for you.
World-class accordionist Jelena Milojevic leads the B.C. Accordion Orchestra at the Alix Goolden Hall.
If you go■ B.C. Accordion Orchestra, May 31: 7:30 p.m. at Alix Goolden Hall, 907 Pandora Ave. Kids 10 & under are free. Tickets available at Tempo Trend Music andLong & McQuade.
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British historian Peter Clarke will be at Fairfield United Church, 1303 Fairfield Rd., 7:30 p.m. on June 5 to read from his new book Mr. Churchill’s Profession.
Although much was written about Sir Winston Churchill as a statesman and world leader, surprisingly little attention has been given to Churchill’s life as a writer.
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More than a few tears will likely be shed tomorrow (May 31) when 3,500 candles glow as night settles over a 144-year-old military veterans ceremony.
The annual candlelight vigil will once again be held at God’s Acre Veterans’ Cemetery in Esquimalt, honouring military members who have served their country.
The public event, co-hosted by Veterans Affairs Canada and the Esquimalt Dockyard Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, will happen in and amongst the 2,500 monuments and 25 interment markers of air force, navy and army service personnel who have passed on.
During the 45-minute ceremony, past and present military members will pass their candles to the next generation – Cadets, Girl Guides and Scouts – who will then place the glowing wax columns on gravestones.
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The colour party marches into God’s Acre Veterans Cemetery in Esquimalt during a candlelight tribute event last year. Candles are left burning at each headstone in the military cemetery to honour servicemen and women. The event is organized by the Esquimalt Dockyard Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.
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The Victoria Shamocks (2-0) didn’t dominate the visiting Maple Ridge Burrards (0-2) on Friday, but they nearly did, winning 8-4.
Rookie head coach Bob Heyes wants to see more from his offensive group, starting with a home game against the Nanaimo Tim-bermen (2-1) Friday night (June 1), at 7:45 p.m. at Bear Mountain Arena.
“With the group we have, we should be more effective offen-sively,” Heyes said. “We scored goals when we needed to (Friday) but we made it hard on ourselves.”
The ’Rocks controlled the first and third periods against the Bur-rards, but a let down in the second period allowed the Burrards to take a 4-3 lead.
When you keep the other team to
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Local boy Mike Pires was named the first star with two goals, one in the second and one in the third. He also got into a fight at the final
buzzer sounded, with Kevin Reid.
“First (fight) of my life, don’t even know how it started,” Pires said.
“I think we were good (on Friday), and the other
team will have their pushes, but we don’t want to get in
that situation.”Corey Small was also key up front
with a natural hat trick that tied the game 4-4 and put the ’Rocks up 6-4.
“We have a good mix of kids and vets,” Heyes said. “The kids have lots of energy, and instead of a few guys doing it all it’s everybody.
Matt Flindell was solid in net with 34 saves on 38 shots.
First Canadian to win Giro, grand tour Travis PatersonNews staff
He’s Canada’s top cyclist and for the moment, he’s the top cyclist in the world.
Victoria’s Ryder Hesjedal won the maglia rosa (pink jersey) as the overall win-ner of the Giro d’Italia on Sun-day, following a sensational effort in the final three stages of the 3,500-kilo-metre, 21 stage race.
H e s j e d a l started the final day on Sunday in second place, and erased a 31-second defi-cit behind leader Joaquin Rodri-guez in the 28.8-km time trial of Stage 21 which wove through the streets of Milan. Hesjedal was sixth on the day with a time of 34:15, while Rodri-guez slipped to second over-all, finishing 26th in the time trial at 35:02.
The West Shore’s Hesjedal, a Belmont secondary grad, is the first Canadian to win a grand tour, which includes the Giro, Tour de France and Spain’s Vuelta a Espana.
In the initial interviews
and photo opportunities fol-lowing his win, Hesjedal had yet to show much emotion.
“I can’t even describe (the feeling) going,” Hesjedal said during Sunday’s media con-ference call from Italy. “It’s overwhelming and it’s going to take a while to sink in.”
Hesjedal truly won the race by holding his second-place position, a half-minute back of Rodriguez, through the treacherous mountain
climbs of stages 19 and 20 on Friday and Sat-urday, including Saturday’s seven-hour marathon up the snowy slopes of the Stel-vio summit. Both days Hesjedal s u c c e s s f u l l y fended off break-away attacks by leading contend-ers and previ-ous Giro win-ners Ivan Basso (2006 and 2010) and Michele
Scarponi (2011). Eurosport’s television analysts were impressed, thinking the attempts would slowly bleed Hesjedal’s stores, like being picked at by piranhas.
Not only did Hesjedal march on undeterred, he nearly stole Stage 19 on Fri-day from winner Roman Kreuziger, finishing second, just 19 seconds back. Kreuz-iger was the last man stand-ing from a breakaway group
that had held a commanding lead for much of the stage.
Then on Saturday, Hesjedal once again completed the demanding final stretch while having to pace the maglia rosa pack, with his rivals drafting his slipstream up the steep climb.
The conspiring of Rodri-guez, Basso and Scarponi, as well as others, attempted to bump Hesjedal out Friday and Saturday, the contend-ers could not.
“We were supposed to
drop Ryder Hesjedal but it’s been the opposite,” Rodri-guez told the Cycling News on Friday. “Hesjedal gave us a lesson … the Giro is in his hands. If he doesn’t make any (mistakes) he’ll be the winner.”
Rodriguez was right.“I had to fight for this Giro,
(my competitors) weren’t helping me, and it makes this victory even sweeter,” Hesjedal said in response to the mountain stages.
“I had help from my team,
who did what they could. But my rivals put the pres-sure on … as we approached the last part of the Stelvio, my rivals weren’t willing to work because they felt it was my race to lose. It’s tactics and situation, and I had to save my own Giro in the last five kms, and that makes it that much sweeter.”
Also sweetening it was mul-tiple kisses with wife Ashley Hofer, and seeing his father, as well as Tour de Victoria organizer Seamus McGrath at the Stelvio summit.
As for Hesjedal’s status in July’s Tour de France and this summer’s London Olym-pics, the Giro champ said he’ll begin putting a plan together soon.
“Once I have started to see my name with the previ-ous winners who’ve accom-plished this, it will sink in, but I’m just enjoying it right now.”
Earlier this year Hesjedal’s seventh-place finish at the 2010 Tour de France was bumped to sixth after that year’s winner, Alberto Conta-dor, was disqualfied for dop-ing.
Hesjedal makes history Cycling in pink■ Since 1931, the Giro leaders jersey, known as the maglia rosa, has been pink to reflect the colour of La Gazzetta Dello Sport. Like the Tour de France, the Giro, which started in 1909, was created to increase the readership of newspapers.
Ryder ready for Olympics■ Asked repeatedly on Sunday about competing for Canada at the upcoming Olympics, Hesjedal responded: “It’s the last thing on my mind right now, I don’t even know the selection date to be honest. But I’ve said all along I want to do it. I don’t see why I shouldn’t be in London, but we’ll see.” Hesjedal represented Canada as a mountain biker in the 2004 Olympics and road cyclist at the 2008 Olympics.
Photo by Graham Watson
Hesjedal bears down in the final stage, a time trial, to take the Giro d’Italia overall lead in Milan on Sunday.
Ryder Hesjedal website
Hesjedal led the Giro for stages 7, 8, 9, 14, and 21.
“I had to save my own Giro in the last five kilometres ... that makes it that much sweeter.”
– Ryder Hesjedal
Defence holding strong for ’Rocks
Diver McCormick Olympic-bound
Saanich diver Riley McCor-mick is going to the Olympics.
McCormick closed the book on his winter struggles with a first place effort on the men’s 10 metre tower at the Diving Canada Olympic trials in Mon-treal on Sunday.
The Claremont secondary grad completed an incredible fifth-round reverse dive, which earned perfect 10s from four of the judges, and clinched McCormick’s second-con-secutive trip to the Olympics. McCormick ended the compe-tition with 979.80 points. Eric Sehn (Edmonton) was second with 863.65.
“I knew I had the potential to put it all together. This was one of my best career perfor-
mances,” McCormick said on Diving Canada’s website.
Adam O’Meara tops at Shawnigan Lake
Victoria long-distance triath-lete Adam O’Meara repeated as the Shawnigan Lake Half-Iron triathlon champion on Sunday.
O’Meara’s time of four hours, four minutes and 54 seconds was more than a minute slower on the rejigged 2012 course than his 2011 winning time of 4:03:36. Wade Carlson (Pentic-ton) and Nathan Killiam (Surrey) finished second and third over-all, respectively, on the 1.9-ki-lometre swim, 88-km bike and 21.1-km run of the Half Iron.
Vancouver’s Rachel Kiers overtook Stephanie Ossenbrink (Richmond) in the swim to fin-ish as the top woman with a time of 4:24:41.
Shawnigan is the first race of the Subaru Western Triathlon Series, which continues June 17 at Elk Lake.
Comox to hold Cyclone Taylor Cup
The Comox Valley Glacier Kings have won the bid to host the 2013 Cyclone Taylor Cup.
The junior B provincial cham-pionship rotates between all three leagues in B.C., the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League, Pacific Inter-national Junior Hockey League, and Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League.
The Glacier Kings will face the respective winner of each league from April 11 to 14.
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Saanich golfer the favourite as national tourney comes to Cordova Bay this weekTravis PatersonNews staff
Coming off the course after another round at Cordova Bay Golf Course last week, Megan Woodland was greeted by nearly everyone she passed.
Golfing at Cordova is a daily routine for the third-year University of Victo-ria student. Woodland also happens to work there, but these days the Vikes team has a free pass to the course.
Cordova Bay is hosting the Canadian University and College golf champi-onship this week, Tuesday (May 29) through Friday.
“The course conditions are in really good shape these days but it usually is, it’s what (Cordova Bay) is known for,” said Woodland, a graduate of Claremont secondary school, who still lives in the Cordova Bay area of Saanich.
The 20-year-old won the women’s National Athletic Intercollegiate Asso-ciation golf championship in Tennessee last week, shooting an even par in a field of competitors from 100 schools in the U.S., and is the hometown favourite to win this week’s Canadian championship.
But she wasn’t always this good. This year the psychology major improved from average to excellent, winning four of the
seven university tournaments, twice finish-ing in second.
“For me, I stay pretty calm on the course and don’t get too mad,” Woodland said. “The biggest thing has been reducing the
margin of my errors, making me more con-sistent.”
Woodland says this with a confident but relaxed tone. Vikes coach Bryan Carbery, however, can’t help but get excited about
Woodland’s development as an elite varsity golfer in Canada.
“(Woodland) has come so far in three years, is consistently shooting under par, never gives up, and has come from behind for three wins this season, which is a big deal,” he said.
What’s making Woodland stand out on the course is her ability to over-come errors mid-game, Carbery added. “She’s learned to correct herself during a round. That’s a huge deal for a golfer.”
With the Vikes already a leg up host-ing the nationals, the picture got even better when Alberta import Carson Kal-lis won the men’s NAIA championship in Oregon on May 25, storming to the lead with a five-under par on his final 18 holes.
Kallis, along with fellow Albertan Darrin Hupfer, are both playing really well for the Vikes and come with strong backgrounds, having each won junior championships in their home province.
“The thing about our team that peo-ple might not realize is how close we are,” Woodland said. “We’ve travelled to a lot of tournaments and it’s rare to see the type of dynamic our team has; it’s really positive.”
The Vikes team consists of five men and four women. Joining Hupfer and Kallis are twins James and Sam Holland and Dylan Cann, while Woodland will
compete with Alyssa Herkel, Victoria Kon-drak and Brynn Tomie.
A 10th Vike, Michaela Misener, will com-pete solo.
Megan Woodland is the captain of the UVic Vikes golf team, which has home-course advantage going into this week’s national championship at Cordova Bay Golf Course.
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HOMES FOR RENT
SMALL 3-BDRM house. New-ly updated. Large yard, stor-age shed, W/D. $1400.+ utils. Text or call (250)858-2763.
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LANGFORD NEW townhouse. bdrm, bath. $600. incl. N/S, N/P, avail July 1. 250-382-9434.
TILLICUM MALL. Furnished Rm in apt. bus route. NS/NP. $550 inclusive. 250-893-8727.
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COLWOOD- COZY 1 bdrm bsmt suite, $740 inclds utils & wifi . Close to Royal Roads Univ, shopping, Galloping Goose trail. Pet friendly, N/S. June 1. Ref’s. 250-294-5516.
MAPLEWOOD AREA- New small 1 bdrm, partly furnished. Inclds utils, laundry, basic cable. Very quiet. $825./mo. Call (250)383-3425.
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SCRAP BATTERIES Wanted We buy scrap batteries from cars, trucks & heavy equip. $4.00 & up each. Free pick-up anywhere in BC, Minimum 10. Toll Free 1.877.334.2288.
UTILITY TRAILERS
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GARAGE SALES
FIRST BAPTIST Church 875 North Park St. Saturday June 2nd. Treasure sale- 9am-1pm.
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St. George’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church,
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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES
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ACCOUNTINGVida Samimi
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Training. E-FileTAX
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CARING BONDABLE work since 1985. Supplies & vacu-um incld’d. Call (250)385-5869
MALTA HOUSECLEANING Estate organizing, events, par-ties, offi ce cleaning. BBB member. (250)388-0278.
SPOTLESS HOME Cleaning. Affordable, Experienced, Re-liable, Effi cient. (250)508-1018
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AL’S AVAILABLE to update your home. Kitchens, baths, basements, etc. Licensed & Insured. Al 250-415-1397.AVAILABLE- SMALL JOBS. Drywall, plumbing,etc. Senior’s discount. Jim (250)858-4091.BIG BEAR Handyman & Painting Services. No job too small. Free Estimates. Senior discounts. Barry 250-896-6071YOUNG SENIOR Handyman. Household repairs. Will assist do-it-yourselfers. Call Fred, 250-888-5345.
HAULING AND SALVAGE
#1 JUNK Removal & Hauling. Small Renos. Moving/Packing. Free estimates. Cheapest in town. Same day emergency removal. Call 250-818-4335.$20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279.CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all. Call 250-361-6164.FAMILY MAN Hauling. Prompt, Courteous. Call Chris for all your hauling needs. 250-920-8463.
✭BUBBA’S HAULING✭ Hon-est, on time. Demolition, con-struction clean-ups, small load deliveries (sand, gravel, top-soil, mulch), garden waste re-moval, mini excavator, bob cat service. (250)478-8858.SAVE-A-LOT HAULING Furniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount. Brad 250-217-9578.PARRY’S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Shawn 250-812-7774HAULING & RECYCLING. 250-889-5794.
2 BURLEY MEN MOVING. $85/hr for 2 men (no before or after travel time charges on lo-cal moves. Please call Scott or Joshua, (250)686-6507.
DIAMOND MOVING. 1 ton 2 ton. Prices starting at $85/hr. Call 250-220-0734.
MALTA MOVING. Serving Vancouver Island, surrounding islands and the Mainland. BBB Member. (250)388-0278.
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217-9580 ENIGMA PAINTING Renos, commercial, residential Professional Friendly Service.
A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wallcoverings. Over 25 yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.
BIG BEAR Painting & Handy-man Services. No job too small. Free Estimates. Senior discounts. Barry 250-896-6071
OLD TIMER. Quality old fash-ioned service. Great rates. Ex-cellent references. Call Al at 250-474-6924, 250-888-7187.
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EXPERIENCED JOURNEY-MAN Plumber. Renos, New Construction & Service. Fair rates. Insured. Reliable, friendly. Great references. Call Mike at KNA (250)880-0104.
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FREE ESTIMATES. Rea-sonable. Reliable. No job toosmall. Call 250-388-5544.
KERRY’S GAS & PLUMBING SERVICES- Repair, mainte-nance & install. 250-360-7663.
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PATCHES,Drywall, skimming,old world texturing, coves, fi re-places. Bob, 250-642-5178.
PRESSURE WASHING
DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates.250-744-8588, Norm.
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