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Holocaust survivor Peter Gary, with one of the illustrations by Ron Wallin created for Gary’s oratorio, which will be performed tonight at Oak Bay High’s Dave Dunnet theatre by the school’s drama students.

Oak Bay High hosts event tonight to honour composer, public speaker

Christine van ReeuwykOak Bay News

Tonight a team of young Oak Bay High dramatists tackles an intimidating 500-plus page oratorio written 44 years ago by a Holocaust survivor.

Peter Gary has a wife he loves along with two Labrador dogs and seven chick-ens on a quiet piece of the Saanich Pen-insula.

“I live every hour of my life living as fruitfully as possible,” he says.

He calculates more than 66,000 high schoolers from Oak Bay to Powell River have heard his messages over more than two decades.

“Stamp out hate. For you, for your future children and grandchildren you deserve a better life than mine was,” he says. “That’s what I say to them. My world got screwed

up. Don’t let it happen to theirs.” They still tell him, 20 years later, “I never

forgot your message.” Well before he started speaking with

youth, Gary penned his oratorio, A Twen-tieth Century Passion.

It shares very little of his personal tale. Born in Poland in 1924, the composer started piano by age 5 and was accepted into the Franz Liszt Royal Academy at age 11.

Holocaust remembered

PlEASE SEE: Performance supports oratorio’s

Jerusalem debut, Page A3

Jennifer BlythOak Bay News

For the first time in close to four decades of helping local residents, Oak Bay Volunteer Ser-vices has issued an urgent appeal for donations.

For 39 years, the agency has matched volunteers with Oak Bay residents, mostly seniors, in need of vital daily services. Volunteers provide one-to-one support with activities such as drives to medical appoint-ments, visits, walks, daily reassurance phone calls for those living alone, reading, minor repairs, gardening, help with tax returns and much more.

Today, however, the agency faces a con-fluence of funding challenges, says Joan Halvorsen, executive director of Oak Bay Vol-unteer Services.

In addition to some of the agency’s major grants being reduced or delayed, OBVS has not received any bequests this year, as it has in the past.

OBVS continues to work with its major funders and look at other opportunities, how-ever it is asking the community for financial support to help it raise the $80,000 currently needed.

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Oak Bay Fire ReportBetween Monday, Jan. 11 and Sunday, Jan. 17,

Oak Bay Fire Department members responded to 24 calls for assistance:

15 Medical aid3 Residential/commercial alarm bells4 Public assistance1 Motor vehicle incident

With the cotinued cold, damp weather, Oak Bay Fire Department reminds resi-dents to following safety precautions when using heating equipment.

Always have a three-foot “kid-free zone” around open fires and space heaters and supervise children around fireplaces, fire pits or other space heaters. Use a sturdy, metal screen to prevent contact burns, even more common than flame burns, notes Capt. Rob Kivell, Oak Bay’s fire pre-vention officer.

Keep anything that can burn, such as paper, bedding or furniture, at least three feet away from heating equipment.

Use equipment with a recognized test-ing laboratory label and never use your oven for heating.

Have a qualified professional install sta-tionary space heating equipment, water heaters or central heating equipment according to local codes and manufac-

turer’s instructions.Ensure all fuel-burning vented equip-

ment is vented to the outside to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning. CO is cre-ated when fuels burn incompletely and poisoning can cause illness and even death. Exhaust venting must be kept clear and unobstructed.

Install and maintain carbon monoxide alarms to avoid risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Have heating equipment and chimneys cleaned and inspected annually by a qual-ified professional.

Portable electric space heatersTurn heaters off when you go to bed

or leave the room and choose portable space heaters with an automatic shut-off in case they’re tipped over, Kivell says.

Place space heaters on solid, flat sur-face and plug directly into outlets, never

into an extension cord.Inspect for cracked or damaged, bro-

ken plugs or loose connections. Replace before using.

Fuel-burning space heatersAlways use the proper fuel as speci-

fied by the manufacturer and in porta-ble kerosene or other liquid-fueled heat-ers, always use the proper grade of the proper fuel.

When refueling, allow the appliance to cool and refuel outside or in a well-venti-lated area.

When using the heater, open a window to ensure proper ventilation.

All new, unvented gas-fired space heat-ers have an oxygen-depletion sensor that detects a reduced level of oxygen in the area where the heater is operating and shuts off the heater before a hazardous level of carbon monoxide accumulates.

Oak Bay Fire urges caution with heating equipmentIf you have an older heater without this feature, replace it, Kivell says.

If a gas heater pilot light goes out, wait five min-utes or more for the gas to disipate before trying again. Don’t allow gas to accumulate. To avoid flashback, light the match before turning on the gas to the pilot.

If you smell gas in your gas heater, don’t try to light the appliance. Turn off all the controls, open doors and window and call a gas service person.

Wood-burning stovesChoose wood stoves bearing the label of a

recognized testing laboratory and install follow-ing manufacturer’s instructions or have a profes-sional do the installation.

In wood stoves, burn only dry, seasoned wood. In pellet stoves, burn only dry, seasoned wood pellets.

Start the fire with newspaper or kindling, never with a flammable liquid, such as lighter fluid, kerosene or gasoline. Keep stove doors closed unless loading or stoking the fire.

Allow ashes to cool before disposing in a tightly covered metal container kept at least 10 feet from the home and any other nearby buildings. Douse and saturate with water.

Clean and inspect chimneys and vents at least once a year.

For more information call Oak Bay’s Fire Pre-vention Division at 250-592-9121.

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On Christmas Eve 1941, Gary and his mother were arrested by Nazis, and his mother killed. Gary survived vari-ous death camps before he was liber-ated in April 1945. The then 21-year-old weighed 76 pounds.

The composition starts at the First World War and flows through to the Nuremberg trials in a bid to share the entire story.

“Every year in Carmel, California they had a Bach festival in a beautiful church in the middle of downtown and people fly in from all over. It’s so well done,” Gary says. He went for years, and always took the musical score to follow along with his ears, eyes, heart and brain.

“That year I forgot the score. I forgot it at home, and I closed my eyes and as I’m listening to this immense com-position some force turned around the notes … and grabbed my hand and I started to see what it was writing,” he says. “When people ask, ‘What is this superstition?’ I say you’re damn right. I feel those children were guiding me. I owed it.”

“Those children” being the small bod-ies he carried from trucks – makeshift gas chambers – under the Nazi eye.

Gary shifts the conversation with dry wit – again – to tonight’s performance at Oak Bay High.

“They want to do it in somebody’s

honour so I have to see who the hell he is,” he says, the straight man, as if it’s not him they plan to honour.

That particular spotlight is a chal-lenge for Gary; he’s put the kibosh on applications to honour him before.

“I could never, ever derive honour or financial advantage for what I do. I owe it for the bodies of dead children I car-ried out of trucks,” he says. “I owe it to those whose stuff I was sorting out in the warehouses.”

They were just two of the horrifying tasks he was given as a teen in the death camps.

Under direction of Steven Price, the teens at Oak Bay High will read seg-ments of the A Twentieth Century Pas-sion on stage in the Dave Dunnet Com-munity Theatre.

“When they told me they want to

read the lyrics without the music … (I thought) wait, wait, wait that doesn’t make sense. Then I heard it. And I said, you know what, they’re very powerful (words),” he says. “It was to me a rev-elation.

“He wants to do it his way with the kids. I trust the teacher, that’s what he does,” Gary says. “I may write some-thing, (but) the moment there is some-one standing up in front of 40, 60, 80 musicians raises his hands … it’s his. It’s Steven’s from now on.”

The same goes for the world premier of the full oratorio planned for April 2017 in Jerusalem. A hall has been booked and a conductor chosen, and the event tonight will help fund the affair, says organizer Bill Southward.

“The idea is to honour Peter but but also be a fundraiser to host the event in Jerusalem,” he says.

“We think Vancouver Island should step up because of the blessing Peter’s been to our youth.”

Oak Bay High students will read from the piece, A Twentieth Century Passion – tonight to celebrate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the school’s community theatre.

Admission is free, with donations to help fund the world premier in Jeruslam accepted at the end of the evening.

Visit a20thcenturypassion.org online to learn more.

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Oak Bay invites resi-dents for an Uplands sewer separation project update during a special committee of the whole meeting Feb. 2.

The meeting will share views, ideas, con-cerns and support in relation to six options being considered to separate the existing combined sanitary and stormwater sewer in the 190-hectare Uplands subdivision.

The provincial gov-ernment, through its Municipal Wastewater Regulation, requires all B.C. communities with single-pipe infra-structure to take the appropriate action to separate stormwater flow from sanitary sew-age flow.

A staff report, includ-ing a review of pub-lic input and survey responses, will be con-sidered at this meeting by the committee.

The report will be available online at oak-bay.ca as of today (Jan. 27). Those wishing to provide correspon-dence for the agenda can provide it to Cor-porate Services by 3 p.m. on Feb. 2. Cor-respondence can be submitted via email to [email protected] or hard copy to Munici-pal Hall, 2167 Oak Bay Ave., Victoria B.C., V8R 1G2.

The meeting is Tues-day, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. at Monterey Recreation Centre, 1442 Monterey Ave.

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The University of Victoria hosts a free special presenta-tion this afternoon (Wednesday, Jan. 27) recognizing the legacy of the Holocaust.

Held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Farquhar Auditorium lobby at the University Centre, the event includes musical per-formances, a candle-lighting ceremony and the rebuilding of a symbolic broken win-dow. Speakers include representatives from the Jewish Students Association, the His-tory Undergraduate Society, Hillel BC, UVic history department’s Dr. Kristin Semmens and a representa-tive from the Victoria Holocaust Remem-brance and Education Society.

Commemorating International Holo-caust Remembrance Day, the event is hosted by Hillel Vic-toria, with the Jewish Students Association, the History Under-graduate Society, the Jewish Federation of Victoria and Vancou-ver Island, the Kristall-nacht Commemora-tion Planning Commit-tee from the Victoria Holocaust Remem-brance and Education Society, UVic Food Services, UVic Mul-tifaith Services and the Departments of History and European Studies.

Also included is a week-long exhibit at Mystic Market, a few steps from the Farqu-har lobby, featuring personal stories of UVic students who are descendants of

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Continued from Page A1 Mark your calendarn Oak Bay High drama students will read from Peter Gary’s oratorio, A Twentieth Century Passion, tonight (Wednesday, Jan. 27) at the school’s Dave Dunnet Community Theatre, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free, with donations supporting the performance of Gary’s oratorio in Jerusalem. Learn more online at a20thcenturypassion.org

Performance supports oratorio’s Jerusalem debut

Learning to

celebrateOak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen speaks during the Neigh-bourhood Learning Centre open house celebration Jan. 16. The learning centre is part of the new Oak Bay High School.Recreation Oak Bay photo

UVic explores Holocaust legacy

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The seed catalogues have begun to arrive. They slip through the mail slot, land in piles in the hall, then migrate around the house. Like a scene from Privet Drive, they come unabated, incessantly, and I stack and read and stack again -– flower glossies, full-colour veg-etable books, herb lists, booklets, pamphlets, fly-ers.

Will this be the year for skirret and salsify? Can I fit six varieties of sweet peas or more? There’s a new Scabi-osa, an annual Euphorbia, and a ‘Sahara’ Rudbeckia I must try.

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ent 20-year-old thinking of ‘traveling to Europe’ a little miserable when they have all the free-dom in the world? Why do we suddenly seize up when presented with 10 different styles of jeans? We can’t choose. We grow unhappy when pre-sented too much choice.

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dance (at $3 a packet, seeds make for exceptional fantasy fodder), my seed strategy is this: I write

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Seeds are a BIG subject, but here’s one guiding principle to follow as the catalogues roll in: only order from companies or growers that have climates simi-lar to your own. My definition of ‘similar’ is broadly self-serving: I use Seedaholic from Ireland, Flo-ret from Washington, Owl’s Acres, Chiltern and Sarah Raven from

England for flowers, and West Coast Seeds from Delta for salad greens. Locally, I buy seeds from Saltspring Seeds and Metchosin Farm.

I try – desperately at times – to avoid heirloom seeds from exotic locations: they just aren’t adapted to our environment and despite worthy urges to support open-pollinated varieties and genetic diversity, your money is better spent by donation to a botanic garden, seed bank or heirloom protection project. Want to grow

an ancient grain or groovy gourd this year? Resist unless you can find the seed locally. Read pack-ets. Investigate companies. Old open-pollinated varieties of seed are the most stable (true to type), and if they come from a maritime climate like ours, you’ll increase your chance of success.

And if you do succumb and buy too much this spring, remember you’ve got a few years to use the seeds you didn’t sow. If kept cool and dry, seeds will last a few years, at least. Best dig out that shoebox from last year and see what you have saved before you spend.

Christin Geall is an avid Oak Bay gardener and a creative non-fiction instructor at the University of Vic-toria.

Seed catalogues: The Paradox of Choice

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“Gardening maximizers be warned: ’tis the season for indoor angst.”

Halvorsen says she’s confident the community will help the agency continue supporting clients’ quality of life. “We’re quite hopeful that we will come up with the funding. The community has always been very supportive,” she says.

At any given time, OBVS has about 200 volun-teers working with 475 clients; of those clients, 84 per cent are age 65 and older and 76 per cent are women, Halvorsen notes. The agency under-takes an assessment of each client’s needs and also works with family members where appropriate.

“It’s an integral part of the community...we are providing a really essential service for people.”

Oak Bay Volunteer Services can provide charita-ble tax receipts for donations. Anyone considering a planned giving donation is also urged to contact the agency. “We ask that people please give gener-ously if you can at this time of urgent need to help us to provide the valuable one-to-one volunteer ser-vices to residents of Oak Bay,” says Bronwyn Taylor, chair of the OBVS board of directors. “We thank all who have supported us over the years. It is our hope that present and new philanthropic donors will come forward.”

For information, visit oakbayvolunteers.bc.ca.

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Notice is hereby given that the parcel tax roll is available for inspection at the Oak Bay Municipal Hall, 2167 Oak Bay Avenue, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, excluding holidays, commencing immediately.A person who owns a parcel included on the parcel tax roll may request that the roll be amended on one or more of the following grounds, but only in relation to the person’s own property:• There is an error or omission respecting a name or address on the parcel tax roll;• There is an error or omission respecting the inclusion of a parcel;• There is an error or omission respecting the taxable area or the taxable frontage of a parcel;• An exemption has been improperly allowed or disallowed.A request for an amendment to the parcel tax roll must be made in writing to:

The Corporation of the District of Oak Bay2167 Oak Bay AvenueVictoria, BC V8R 1G2

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Holocaust events remind us why we must never forget

Two stories in this edition of your Oak Bay News remind us that while we are 70 years removed, historically speaking, from the Holocaust, its legacy remains with us.

Like the dwindling number of Second World War veterans attending Remembrance Day services, the number of Holocaust survivors still with us today is smaller, but their story remains with us, as it must.

Peter Gary was just 21 when he was liberated from the last of several concentration camps he survived during the course of the war. The unspeakable atrocities remain with him still, but he has found a way to share some of those experiences with generations of young people since.

More than 66,000 young people over the years, by his estimation.

Assuming each of those students likely shared some of what they heard with even one or two other people, what a remarkable impact one man has had.

Now, at 91 years of age, this man who has given so much to so many hopes to see a dream fulfilled – a 500-plus page oratorio he wrote 44 years ago, performed in Jerusalem.

To that end, Oak Bay High students, under the direction of drama teacher Steven Price, will tonight read sections of A Twentieth Century Passion on stage at the school’s Dave Dunnet Community Theatre. The event also marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, and while admission is free, donations will be accepted toward the Jerusalem performance.

Earlier this afternoon, the University of Victoria also hosts a free special event at University Centre, with speakers, musicians and special guests reminding us both of the terror evil wrought upon the world, and why today, it remains essential that we never forget.

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With unlicensed marijuana dispensaries popping up in urban areas and thousands of unregulated medical licences for home growing still in legal limbo, the Trudeau government is start-ing work on its promise to legalize recreational use.

Marijuana was a media darling in the recent election, but meeting in Vancou-ver with provincial ministers last week, federal Health Min-ister Jane Philpott found herself preoc-cupied with issues deemed more urgent.

These include shifting our post-war acute hospital model to community primary care, tackling aboriginal health care needs, pooling pharmaceuti-cal purchases to slow rising costs, and meeting an urgent Supreme Court of Canada directive to legalize assisted dying.

At the closing news confer-ence in Vancouver, Philpott was asked how recreational marijuana should be sold. Licensed medical growers want exclusive rights do it

by mail as permitted by the Harper government, another measure forced by our high court. That would shut out the rash of supposedly medical

storefronts, which city halls in Vancou-ver and elsewhere imagine they can regulate.

Philpott said the question is “premature” and federal-provincial justice ministers were dealing with it at their meeting. Ottawa will have a “task force” too.

V a n c o u v e r descended into a pot store free-for-all due to benign neglect from council and police, and Victoria isn’t far behind. Van-couver Coun. Kerry Jang, a rare voice of reason in the Big Smoke, has protested dispen-saries using street hawkers to attract young buyers, and pot stores setting up near schools.

Other communities, more aware of their limitations, have resisted issuing business licences. One recent proposal in the Victoria suburb of View Royal came from a fellow who insisted marijuana extract had

cured his cancer. This is typi-cal of claims that proliferate on the Internet, and is one of many warning signs about dispensaries that put up red cross signs to sell pot prod-ucts with exotic names.

B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake was more forthcoming a few days earlier, responding to a Vancouver reporter who judged marijuana more inter-esting than his just-announced plan to hire 1,600 more nurses by the end of March.

Lake noted that Ontario Pre-mier Kathleen Wynne is keen to sell marijuana through the province’s monopoly liquor stores. B.C.’s government liquor store union has also endorsed this idea, forming an unlikely alliance with non-union private stores to get in on the action.

“There are public health officials that I’ve talked to who say that the co-location of marijuana and liquor sales is not advisable from a public health perspective,” Lake said. “I think whatever we do it has to be highly regulated, qual-ity control has to be excellent and above all we must protect young people.”

Yes, liquor stores check ID.

But the notion that marijuana might be sold next to beer and vodka in government stores deserves sober second thought, and serious scien-tific work of the kind that has shown damage to developing brains from teenage marijuana use.

Of course all of this urban hand-wringing over pot stores ignores the de facto legaliza-tion that has existed across B.C. for decades.

The Nelson Star had a funny story last week about a local woman’s discovery on Google Earth. Zooming in on area mountains, one finds not only the Purcell landmark Loki Peak, but also Weed Peak, Grow Op Peak, Cannabis Peak and Hydroponic Peak. What-ever the source of this cyber-prank, it could also be applied to other regions of B.C.

For the record, I’ll restate my long-standing position that legalization is the only logical answer. I’ll say the same about other drugs that drive most B.C. crime, but that’s a subject for another day.

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Now that the newly revealed sewage treatment options show costs to local taxpayers have almost doubled and in one case tripled, it’s time for the CRD to re-consider the lower-cost solution available at McLoughlin Point.

The federal and pro-vincial government have legally mandated the CRD to provide sewage treatment for the seven core munici-palities.

Federal and pro-vincial funding grants of up to $500 million have tentatively been secured to subsidize the cost of the required sewage treatment infrastructure. The interim funding agreements cur-rently in place are based on the assumption that a single treat-ment plant will be built.

The interim agreement for the federal monies expires March 31. By that time, unless a second extension is granted, CRD’s Core Area Liquid Waste Management Committee (CALWMC) is required to have selected, acquired and appropriately zoned a location for sewage treatment.

In 2014 CALWMC proposed a large single plant at McLoughlin Point for all seven municipalities costing a total of $788 million. The site is owned by the CRD and was zoned by Esquimalt for sew-age treatment. However, because the proposed size of the single plant, bylaw variances were required before a building permit could be issued. Esquimalt coun-cil did not grant the variances.

After the 2014 elections a newly constituted CALWMC went back to the drawing board to look for

alternate sites and less expensive treatment options.

Since then CALWMC has worked to come up with five new options. Two options propose a single plant at Rock Bay. The other three options are two-,

four- and seven-plant configurations. All pro-posals have at least one facility at Rock Bay. It is important to note that none of these newly proposed sites have been acquired by the CRD and none are cur-rently zoned to permit sewage treatment. This is in direct contrast to

the property at McLoughlin Point which is owned by the CRD and appropriately zoned.

On Dec. 9 the costs for each of the five new options were pre-sented to CALWMC. Assuming federal and provincial grants are received, the cost to be borne solely by local tax payers will range between approximately $548 to $866 million depending which of the options is selected.

The McLoughlin proposal in 2014 would have cost local tax-payers approximately $288 mil-lion after accounting for federal and provincial support.

This dramatic rise in costs to local taxpayers ought to lead CALWMC to reconsider the less expensive McLoughlin option.

Re-examing the McLoughlin proposal is timely because two municipalities, Langford and Col-wood have recently expressed interest in pursuing a separate stand-alone treatment system for their municipalities.

If Langford and Colwood break away it would mean the remain-

ing five communities can col-laborate on a smaller facility at McLoughlin Point – one that does not require variances and can be built in full compliance with the Esquimalt bylaw.

Because McLoughlin Point is currently owned by CRD it would be possible to meet the federal deadline that sewage treatment be operational by 2020. All of the new options under consideration require land acquisition and rezoning applications which for multiple sites could take years. None of them are likely to meet the 2020 deadline. This is a huge risk to the taxpaying citizens.

The prospect for a smaller plant at McLoughlin that meets the federal deadlines should lead the CALWMC to, at the very least, ask its independent Technical Oversight Panel to review the fea-sibility of using McLoughlin Point in light of the Langford/Colwood initiative and the dramatic rise in costs. This apolitical panel was established to provide the pub-lic with a layer of assurance that nothing has been missed or over-looked. They are perfectly placed to provide advice.

In 2014 the new mandate of the CALWMC was to be open to all ideas and options, to look at costs and to make decisions that are best for all CRD taxpayers. If after extensive review of the new options it turns out McLoughlin Point is in fact the best site for sewage treatment, politicians should be open-minded and embrace the findings.

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Re: Weigh in on local issues, but mind the facts, Oak Bay News, Dec. 30

The Dec. 30 Our View edito-rial (asking writers to “mind the facts”) questioned the facts in my letter of Dec. 25 that we Oak Bayers may be suffering another 5 per cent tax hike in 2016. Although my letter was signed, the editorial was not, so I don’t know where the criticism is coming from.

The editorial corrected my

5 per cent tax number to 4.86 per cent as an example of writ-ers not sticking to the facts. I rounded out the number in my letter.

If city hall had issued a press release about the looming tax hike, they could have specified the exact number, but city hall was silent.

And if there is rounding to be done, please let it be our coun-cil rounding the 4.86 per cent down to 0 per cent to give us all a break from continuous tax hikes.

The editorial also stated “The

budget was approved by coun-cil, not the mayor ...” as another example of how my letter was not factual. Pardon me?

In a council vote, the default vote is ‘yea.’ To abstain, the mayor or councillor must physi-cally leave the room, other-wise their vote is counted as ‘yea’ unless they specifically vote ‘nay.’

Since the mayor did not vote against the provisional 4.86 per cent tax increase, then he voted for it. And that’s a fact.

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Rebecca Genge returns to her roots in the Pacific Baroque Festival as soloist Jan. 28.


Standing in the blustery cold of Toronto, Rebecca Genge looks for-ward to West Coast weather when she comes home – where she was inspired to sing.

“There’s certainly snow falling from the sky,” she says with a laugh during a phone interview last week.

The 2009 grad of Oak Bay High returns to Victoria as the featured soloist in Why should the Devil have all the good tunes? in a special concert of Pacific Baroque Festival 2016.

“The choral program at Oak Bay High was extremely influential for me,” says Genge, who was heavily involved in “about three choirs” in the program under the leadership of Sally Murphy. “She is one of the reasons I had confidence to pursue singing in post secondary.”

Now working on her master’s degree at the University of Toronto, Genge is recog-nized as one of the emerging soprano tal-ents in Canada. She’s returned to balmy Victoria for several summers to partici-pate in workshops at the Victoria Con-servatory of Music where she previously completed a two-year diploma.

“I’m particularly interested in baroque music and one of the reasons I did the diploma at the (Victoria) Conservatory is Nancy Argenta. She’s one of the best people you could study with if you want to be a baroque soprano. There wasn’t any reason to leave.”

There was plenty of performance opportunity in Victoria, as a choral scholar at St. John the Divine and with the St. Christopher’s Singers, even before that she participated in the Pacific Baroque Festival in youth choirs.

“It’s a long-running thing so coming back as a soloist from Toronto this year is exciting,” she says.

“(Baroque is) something I’ve always been really drawn to,” she adds. That seed took root at age 12 when Genge got her hands on an Dame Emma Kirkby CD. She constantly forced her parents to listen to the famed English soprano on every car ride. This year she earned the oppor-tunity to perform with Kirkby.

“It was a huge dream come true,” Genge says.

Genge will be joined in the Christ Church Cathe-dral concert by a small ensemble of some of Canada’s most respected baroque musicians: Marc Destrubé and Linda Mel-sted (baroque violins), Natalie Mackie

(viola da gamba) and Michael Jarvis (harpsichord). Destrubé returns to the city where he grew up, and Jar-vis recently settled in Victoria.

Genge hopes the program of com-posers that came before Johann Sebastian Bach will inspire listeners, as they likely inspired Bach himself.

Music includes Dietrich Becker (1623 – 1679); Sonata and Suite in D Major; from Zwey-stimmiger Sonaten und Suiten (Hamburg, 1674); Johann Krieger (1649 – 1725); Abend-Andacht; Sonata Quinta a doi (G major); Herr, auf dich trau ich (1697); Christoph Bernhard (1628 – 1692); Aus der Tiefen, from Geistliche Har-monien, Op.1 (1665); Dietrich Bux-tehude (ca. 1637 – 1707); Trio Op. 2, No. 3 g minor; Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BuxWV 98; Philipp Hein-rich Erlebach (1657 – 1714); Sonata Seconda (1694); and two songs from Harmonische Freude musicalischer Freunde (1697).

“I really love them all,” she said. “It’s a great thing for people to hear. all these composers get overshad-owed by Bach. A lot of people who predate him don’t really get played. It’s great to hear what wonderful

composers they are, and without them we wouldn’t have Bach as he is.”

“Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?” is on stage Thursday, Jan. 28 at Christ Church Cathe-dral. A Jan. 29 performance is slated for Metchosin and Jan. 30 at Knox United Church in Parksville.

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Happy Birthday, Wolfgang – Galiano Ensemble celebrates Mozart’s 260th birthday, 8 to 10 p.m. at Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Bldg, Music Wing. Tickets $33/$30 from Ivy’s Bookshop.

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Glenlyon Norfolk School encourages students to lead a healthy, active lifestyle with a new state-of-the-art fitness cen-tre.

The Scott Fitness Centre, located at the Pemberton Woods campus on Bank Street, includes spin bikes, treadmills, weight machines and space for yoga, dance, karate and a weight-lift-ing club.

Prior to renovations, it was a 1932 middle school gym. Now, the multi-purpose centre has the capacity to hold two to three classes of 20 students, along with co-curricular users.

A smart TV also shows stu-dents how to plan their fitness workouts and how to use the machines.

The roughly 2,800-square-foot facility is already getting lots of use both during school hours as part of the physical education program, but also before and after school by students trying to stay active.

“The idea of the fitness centre was really to enhance the whole student experience at GNS,” said Glenn Zederayko, head of school.

“This fitness centre is another area where they learn, not only about being healthy and fit, but looking after others and mak-ing positive differences that we think will extend into their community work well outside of Victoria, the province and the world.”

The spaces cost roughly $500,000 to renovate and equip over a six-month period. Dona-tions came from families of stu-

dents attending the school. “Healthy body, healthy mind.

The kids are walking by and they’re so excited,” said Chad Holtum, deputy head of school, who was responsible for fund-raising.

“It’s going to benefit every stu-dent as part of the physical edu-cation program or co-curricular program.”

Zederayko said currently the centre is only open to students, but could potentially open to school alumni and parents in the future.

Glenlyon Norfolk School is an independent school for stu-dents in Kindergarten to Grade 12, with campuses in Victoria and Oak Bay. The Pemberton Woods campus has roughly 500 students.

Kendra.wong @vicnews.com

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Students and teachers celebrate the recent opening of the Scott Fitness Centre at Glenlyon Norfolk School’s Pemberton Woods campus.

GNS opens new fitness centre


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Tuesday February 2, 2016Monterey Recreation Centre

1442 Monterey Avenue – 7:00 PMOak Bay residents are invited to attend this special project update to share views, ideas, concerns and support in relation to six options that are being considered to separate the existing combined sanitary and stormwater sewer in the 465 acre (190 hectare) Uplands subdivision.

A comprehensive staff report will be available on the District website on January 27 along with project materials presented at the Open Houses held in November and December. www.oakbay.ca

The public is welcome to submit correspondence for inclusion on the agenda to Acting Director of Corporate Services [email protected] Deadline for submissions is 3:00 pm on February 2, 2016

About the Uplands Combined Sewer Separation Project:The provincial government through its Municipal Wastewater Regulation requires all B.C. communities that have single pipe infrastructure to take the appropriate action to separate stormwater flow from sanitary sewage flow. Compliance is mandatory.

Council is hosting a special Committee of the Whole meeting dedicated to the Uplands

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Company C turns fairy tales on their ears in its third produc-tion of the season.

The Canadian College of the Performing Arts’ third-year-student performance company pitches Into the Woods on stage starting Jan. 28.

The Stephen Sondheim play reintroduces classic fairy tale characters just after the “and they lived happily ever after.”

“It’s not the children’s story version,” said Caitlenn Bull, who for this performance works on sets and plays mom for both Jack and Cinderella in the per-formance.

“The characters all really have these in-depth sides to them.”

Things start rosy and fai-rytale-like in the first half, said R.J. Peters, production manager and mentor in light design and set design. Then it explores the reality of what the characters’ dreams fulfilled – and the conse-quences – look like.

“It gets a little dark,” Peters said.

Into the Woods is directed by renowned Canadian actor and director Sara-Jeanne Hosie.

“Sara-Jeanne Hosie is well known. We were thrilled she was able to come and work with our students,” Peters said. “This is Into the Woods like you have never seen it before.”

Hosie’s credits include God-spell (Arts Club in Vancouver), The Buddy Holly Story (Che-mainus Theatre Festival), and My Fair Lady (The Blue Bridge Rep-ertory Theatre).

Sarah Carlé, a local musical theatre treasure and alum of 2005’s original Company C that staged Into the Woods, will also make an appear-ance in the show she first did with CCPA a decade ago.

“We’ve come full circle,” Bull said.

Quite literally. They’ve built two-

storey structures to add vignette spaces to the Elgin Road performance hall and borrowed the Belfry’s revolving stage. The audience will fill ris-

ers on opposing sides.“We’re doing it in a round in a sense. The audi-

ence will really feel immersed,” Bull said. Note that Into the Woods contains scenes of

death and some sexual themes.

Performances run Jan. 28 to Feb. 6 in the CCPA per-formance hall, 1701 Elgin Rd. For tickets and ticket information, visit ccpa-canada.com or call the box office at 250-595-9970.

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Company C heads Into the Woods

Did you know?n Winner of Tony awards for “Best Original Score” and “Best Book of a Musical,” Into The Woods has received several revivals on both Broadway and in London’s West End, and was made into a musical film by Walt Disney Pictures in 2014.

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CCPA Company C members Helena Descoteau, as Rapunzel atop the structure, Little Red Riding Hood Kathryn Boyd, Jack (as in the beanstalk) played by Lina Wahlstrom and his mom played by Caitlenn Bull bring Into the Woods to the stage on Elgin starting Jan. 28.

Textile artist offers [Insert Here] showAward-winning Oak Bay artist Susan Purney

Mark’s new solo show is called [Insert Here] Tex-tile Art Inspired by Structure.

Her series focuses on abstract interpretations of structures designed over the past three years.

“[Insert Here] really is the title of my show,” says Purney Mark.

“It is meant in part to explain my technique of assembling the fabric. All the fabric in my work begins as white or black, and I apply colour and marks by dyeing, painting or screen printing, she says.

“It’s about building up layers of texture and pat-tern on the fabric and using it just as an artist uses any other medium.”

Visit susanpm.com to learn more about the art-

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The legacy of Irish poet W.B. YeatsUniversity of Victoria Chancellor Shelagh Rogers

moderates a Jan. 28 discussion on the enduring legacy of Irish poet W.B. Yeats,

Last year marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Irish poet and Nobel laureate and Thursday’s event also serves as a closing recep-tion for the Celebrating Yeats at 150 exhibit at UVic.

Joining Rogers will be panelists Dr. Ann Saddle-myer, Dr. Magda Kay and Linda Hardy.

The discussion and reception runs from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28. in Room 129 of the Mearns Centre, at UVic’s McPherson Library.

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This coming Sunday, Jan. 31, a celebration of the life and times of former Social Credit Premier Bill Bennett is at the Grand Hotel in Kelowna. I’ll be there with hundreds of his former col-leagues and friends whose lives were impacted by this one-of-a-kind premier.

Bennett died last December at age 83. He had been suffer-ing from Alzheimer’s. His struggle with the terrible illness was not generally known until two years ago when family friend Charles Fipke donated more than $3 million in Bennett’s name to Alzheimer’s research at the Djavad Mowafaghian Cen-tre for Brain Health, a partner-ship between the UBC Faculty of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health.

Bennett announced his retire-ment from politics 30 years ago during Expo 86. Many of you will remember that the years pre-ceding Expo were harsh indeed and Bennett’s restraint program, designed to keep B.C. viable through hard economic times, earned the premier very few friends at the time.

In fact, Bennett was basically losing the 1983 provincial elec-tion until NDP leader Dave Bar-rett, campaigning in the West Kootenay as I recall, told report-ers he would dismantle the restraint program. Apparently, voters understood that the hard-

ships imposed on them were worth the short-term pain.

Back in those days I had the greatest job in B.C., political reporter for the Vancouver Sun posted to the Legislative Press Gallery. Covering Bennett was a challenge. He had little use for

sound bites and photo ops. He was terse, rather than eloquent.

Looking back, I have to chuckle at Ben-nett’s deft ability to leave the media stand-ing in the rain when-ever he could. Car-ing little for another combative question about the impacts of restraint, the premier discovered he could

escape the media by sending his press secretary, Hal Lieren, out to schmooze the press gallery scrum in the driveway outside the West Annex while Bennett made his escape through the Legislature’s labyrinth of base-ment corridors to join his driver at the “CNIB Stand” at the East Annex.

One afternoon, when I real-ized what was happening, the premier and I had a foot race through the basement hallways. The only reason I caught him was because the athletic pre-mier had a terrible cold. Back in those days my idea of exercise was a block-long walk to the bar after work.

So, there we were, leaning against the concrete wall wheez-ing, red-faced and speechless. A

great moment for Politics vs the Fourth Estate.

In a tribute to Bennett in 2011, former attorney general Brian Smith said: “Bennett’s personal qualities often were under-appreciated during his time in office. He was not a natural orator and television sold him short.

“As a friend and later as a cabinet colleague, I knew him to be warm and funny and fero-ciously loyal. He did not dump colleagues who were in trouble. He stuck by them, as his father had done before him.”

Smith recalled that Bennett could also crack the whip when his ministers drifted. “When the cabinet seemed captivated by a large new spending initiative, the premier called for a cabinet vote. Everyone voted for the scheme. Bennett said: ‘Ayes – 21 and Nays – 1. I see the nays have it.’ We all laughed for a long time and the program died.”

In 2007, Bennet received the Order of B.C. He was praised for leading our province through a challenging economic time and left office with the province poised for success in a modern, global economy. Bennett’s leg-acy has stood the test of time. He is remembered as a builder and an optimist who always had an upbeat vision for British Columbia.

The family says that dona-tions in Bennett’s memory can be made to the Alzheimer’s Soci-ety, Suite 307-1664 Richter St., Kelowna, V1Y 8N3.

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Betty Novak rings up coffee and snacks at least once a week at Monterey Recreation.

After two decades doing it for pay, now the long-

time volunteer cashier at Fern Café is in it for free and fun.

“I moved here from Vancouver and my daughter, she said ‘why don’t you volunteer?’” Novak said. The shifts offer a good way to make acquaintances and use the skills she developed as a cashier for 20 years at Simon Fraser University.

“I love people. I like to help people,” she said. Novak is the sort of cashier who will walk a coffee to the table if someone’s having a challenge with the walk.

“The members who come here, they are won-derful people,” Novak said.

She also attends exercise classes but isn’t a member of any of the other myriad clubs at Mon-terey. Among her new friends is fellow volunteer Terry Osborne.

“We have fun Betty and I,” says Osborne, who has travelled to Fern Café for Friday shifts for 18 months. It’s one of her three volunteer jobs.

“I’m retired and I enjoy giving back,” said the Fairfield resident who also does work with CNIB and James Bay Community Project. “It’s cool. I like it, it’s worth the trip (to Oak Bay).”

Monterey volunteers are all members of the centre and many of them wear multiple hats as volunteers and participants in clubs, courses and special events.

“It’s a busy operation ... we’re always looking for volunteers,” said Lesley Cobus, Monterey Recre-ation co-ordinator.

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“To be part of a friendly, vibrant commu-nity, using their skills and working with peo-ple, gives (volunteers) a sense of purpose and adds meaning to their lives in retire-ment.”

With a membership beyond 2,000, more than 100 spend some of their week volun-teering at the centre.

“They make a huge difference here at the Monterey community,” Cobus said. “It keeps

our food services affordable for members, and with food costs on the rise, that’s a concern.”

Monterey needs a few new volunteers for customer service roles, including café help-ers, cashiers and Coffee Express attendants. Volunteers would ideally commit three hours a week, two to four times a month. Contact Joanne at 250-370-7309 or [email protected] to arrange a meeting.

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Terry Osborne, left, and Betty Novak enjoy their time spent volunteering together at Monterey’s Fern Café.

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STEEL BUILDING Sale. “Really big sale: extra winter discount on now!!” 21x22 $5,190; 25x24 $5,988; 27x28 $7,498; 30x32 $8,646; 35x34 $11,844; 42x54 $16,386. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422,www.pioneersteel.ca

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HOME INSPECTOR? You have a realtor and a lawyer; don’t wait to fi nd an inspector. Call Terry at 778-533-0333 or check on line at: chewkahomeinspections.com

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KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Company. Sm jobs welcome. Lic #86952. 250-415-7991.

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GREAT TIME for pruning. Fruit, ornamental & native trees. Call Maxse for results. Senior disc. 250-634-0347.

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250-380-7778 GRAND Xterior Cleaning. Repairs, Gutters, de-moss, roofs windows, PWash, Christmas lights.

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

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

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

HAUL A WAY Clean & green. Junk & garbage removal. Free est. Senior disc. 778-350-5050


HAULING AND SALVAGE

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

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

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


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Refuse Sam✓Garbage Removal

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(250)889-5794. DIAMOND Dave Moving- Free estimates!

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


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A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.

HIGH QUALITY and FAST. Professional Painting. $20./hr. Free est. Glenn 778-967-3607.

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

PLUMBING

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PRESSURE WASHING

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UPHOLSTER- Furn. repairs, scratches, fi x springs, marine,commercial. 250-480-9822.

WINDOW CLEANING

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BOB’S WINDOW Cleaning, Gutters. Over 25 yrs. Licensed& affordable. 250-884-7066.

DAVE’S WINDOW Cleaning.Windows, Gutters, Sweeping,Roofs, Roof Demossing, Pres-sure Washing. 250-361-6190.

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Oak Bay’s guide to maintaining the mind, body and soul

For close to three decades, Brenda Richardson has helped women step lively on their road to health and well-ness.

Celebrating 26 1/2 years as a Jazzercise instructor, including more than 15 years with Jazzercise Oak Bay, a highlight throughout the years has been helping people get – and stay – � t.

“I love sharing my passion for � t-ness with my customers – I am truly blessed to love what I do,” Brenda says with her conta-gious smile.

Founded on the belief that exercise is an important aspect of living the best life we can, Jazzercise is also about having fun. With music that makes you want to move and positive, upbeat leaders, � tness is not only pos-sible, but a blast.

And, understanding that staying � t is a mental as well as a physical challenge, “that’s why we’re in this togeth-er! The strength we gain in class translates to everyday living where life’s challenges can be faced head-on,” Brenda says.

“Jazzercise is the best program I have experienced. We offer cardio plus strength and stretch – pretty much one-stop shopping – all in one hour.”

For those who like to mix it up, or add something dif-ferent to their usual workout, Jazzercise Oak Bay also offers classes in a variety of formats, including Dance Mixx, Interval Dance Mixx, Interval Fusion, Strength60

and more.Brenda complements her extensive � tness knowledge

and experience with comprehensive wellness education. “By furthering my education in strength training,

personal training, � tness consulting and sports nutrition, I’m able to help my customers be the best they can be,” she says.

Away from the dance � oor, Brenda enjoys being active with husband Darrel Richardson, also busy in the local sports scene, and their two dogs, Roman and Jazz, who enjoy walks to local beaches.

Jazzercize Oak Bay gets busy by moving for the community, too. Their many fundraisers have included joining Victoria Jazzercise instructors to raise more than $250,000 for breast cancer over 15 years.

In addition, instructors lead participants in their warm-up for the CIBC Run for the Cure, Oak Bay Rotary’s Merrython Fun Run and many others, Brenda notes. “Our latest was a fundraiser for ALS in support of one of my customers Lisa Ruffolo.”

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