The Oak Bay Connector » michellekirby http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org Connect, Communicate, Collaborate Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:12:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 OAK BAY ALL CANDIDATES MEETINGS http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/10/26/oak-bay-all-candidates-meetings/ http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/10/26/oak-bay-all-candidates-meetings/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:29:32 +0000 michellekirby http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/?p=1186 There will be two All Candidates Meetings in Oak Bay in connection with the 2011 Municipal Election November 19, 2011. All eleven candidates for Council and two candidates for Mayor have been invited to take part.

The first meeting will be held Friday, November 4, 2011 from 7 to 9 pm in the Garry Oak Room at the Monterey Recreation Centre, 1442 Monterey Avenue.

The second meeting will be held Tuesday, November 8 from 7 to 9 pm in the Sanctuary at the Emmanuel Baptist Church, 2121 Cedar Hill Cross Road. Doors open at both events at 6:4pm.

The moderator will be Mr. Jamie Chicanot a partner in ADR Education. These meetings are sponsored by the Community Association of Oak Bay and the North Henderson Residents’ Association.

“Our Associations are pleased to sponsor these events. We hope these meetings will help voters make up their minds when choosing between two candidates for Mayor and among eleven candidates for six Council positions”, says spokesperson Jill Croft of the Community Association of Oak Bay.

 

]]> http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/10/26/oak-bay-all-candidates-meetings/feed/ 0 3rd Annual Willows Beach Cleanup http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/09/27/3rd-annual-willows-beach-cleanup/ http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/09/27/3rd-annual-willows-beach-cleanup/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:24:17 +0000 michellekirby http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/?p=1169 A group of about a dozen volunteers combed Willows Beach on Saturday morning, looking for any bit of garbage to pick up. In an hour’s work, we managed to get a half a bag of returnable containers, and the remaining bags were filled with garbage.

The most common item again was cigarette butts, found in the sand, along the walkway, on the rocks, and concentrated around logs on the beach. I couldn’t take two steps without seeing a butt, and picked up hundreds in the hour we were there. The largest item was likely the pair of sand filled shorts. I will leave to your imagination the other treasures we found!

Thanks so much to the volunteers who came out to help!

]]> http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/09/27/3rd-annual-willows-beach-cleanup/feed/ 0 3rd Annual Shoreline Cleanup at Willows Beach http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/09/20/3rd-annual-shoreline-cleanup-at-willows-beach/ http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/09/20/3rd-annual-shoreline-cleanup-at-willows-beach/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:03:15 +0000 michellekirby http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/?p=1159 Join the Community Association of Oak Bay for the 3rd Annual Shoreline Clean Up this Saturday, September 24, 2011.

We meet at Willows Beach Kiwanis Tea Room  and will work together to clean the beach of  hundreds of cigarette butts, bits of plastic, and all kinds of other surprises that you don’t want on your beach, in your ocean, or eaten by sea life.

Bring gloves, and bags for all the garbage and recycling collected.

Everyone welcome!

]]> http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/09/20/3rd-annual-shoreline-cleanup-at-willows-beach/feed/ 0 3rd Annual Oak Bay Community Harvest Potluck http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/09/10/3rd-annual-oak-bay-community-harvest-potluck/ http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/09/10/3rd-annual-oak-bay-community-harvest-potluck/#comments Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:46:37 +0000 michellekirby http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/?p=1142 3rd Annual Oak Bay Community Harvest Potluck


Harvest Party Entrance

Saturday, October 1st, 2011

5:00 – 7:00PM Potluck Dinner
7:00 – 7:30 Family Entertainment by Oak Bay’s Stuart Nemtin as the famous Major Conrad Flapps

Oak Bay United Church, Lower Hall
1355 Mitchell Street, Oak Bay

Bring friends, neighbors and family and a favourite food dish with serving utensils, your own plate(s), cutlery and cup(s).

Join in the Harvest Bounty Exchange Table! Bring seeds, plants, recipes to share and exchange.

Show off the best of your garden and have it judged by the Community Association Executive!

Hosted by the Community Association of Oak Bay

]]> http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/09/10/3rd-annual-oak-bay-community-harvest-potluck/feed/ 1 Video of proposed CARSA building at UVic http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/09/10/1138/ http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/09/10/1138/#comments Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:04:30 +0000 michellekirby http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/?p=1138 For those interested in the new Centre for Athletics, Recreation and Special Abilities at UVic, here’s a short video that shows what it will look like from all driving directions.

]]> http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/09/10/1138/feed/ 0 UVic Open House for the CARSA Project http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/08/30/uvic-open-house-for-the-carsa-project/ http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/08/30/uvic-open-house-for-the-carsa-project/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:06:07 +0000 michellekirby http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/?p=1131 UVic is hosting an Open House for the public to learn more, and share input on the development of the Centre for Athletics, Recreation and Special Abilities (CARSA) and parkade.

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Drop in from 4:00-8:00 PM

Presentations will be held at 5:00 and 7:00 PM

Mackinnon Building, Apparatus Gym, University of Victoria

For more information, please email planning@uvic.ca

]]> http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/08/30/uvic-open-house-for-the-carsa-project/feed/ 0 Next Community Association Meeting http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/06/05/next-community-association-meeting/ http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/06/05/next-community-association-meeting/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 04:40:16 +0000 michellekirby http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/?p=1127 Our next CAOB meeting will be public – open to all our members – and anyone wanting to check us out!

When: Monday, June 13th, 2011

Time: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Where: Monterey Centre, Pine Room

We will have a full agenda, which will be posted soon.  Keep coming back to the site for updates!

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Your Community Association wants you to join us with your bicycles, wagons, or even just your feet. We would love to see members out to have fun, and which will of course, draw new members. And you know how that works…the more, the merrier!

We are going to keep it simple again this year, with a no-emissions float…okay, small exception…we are keeping up the tradition of bubbles!  We ride our bikes or walk together, bubble wands in hand (which the kids watching seem to LOVE), we laugh, we carry our banner and we have a great time, all while raising our community profile.

If you can join us, please RSVP to michelle@michellekirby.ca and meet beside Windsor Park Pavilion between 9:30 and 10:00AM on Saturday morning.

The Annual Tea Party Parade is an Oak Bay tradition. If you’re just out to watch, it begins on Saturday at 10:30AM from Windsor Park. The 45 minute parade winds through the streets of Oak Bay, ending at Willows Beach Park.

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To RSVP, please email to sustainability@saanich.ca.

For more events like this, please visit the Saanich Climate Change Schedule of Events.

]]> http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/05/21/rainwater-collection-workshop/feed/ 0 UVic Community Relations Spring Newsletter http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/05/15/uvic-community-relations-spring-newsletter/ http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/blog/2011/05/15/uvic-community-relations-spring-newsletter/#comments Sun, 15 May 2011 18:43:57 +0000 michellekirby http://oakbaycommunityassociation.org/?p=1109 Contributed by the Director of Community Relations for UVic, Grant Hughes

This informal update is intended for our friends and neighbours of the University of Victoria. Exams are over for the Spring session and UVic convocation will occur next month. Community members can watch the ceremonies on the web. Follow the links at www.uvic.ca.

Feel free to contact me at gwhughes@uvic.ca or (250) 472-5047.

Updates

UVic has advised the District of Saanich of its decision to take additional time to further refine the Queenswood rezoning application. See the website update at www.queenswoodrezoning.ca.

Our Administrative Services Building is the fourth campus facility to achieve the gold-level standard in environmental design and sustainability.

Members of the community now have free access the research publications of UVic faculty, students and staff via http://dspace.library.uvic.ca.

Do you want to get in shape? The “no pressure” Bootcamp class will give you confidence and a total body conditioning workout- Wednesdays May 11 to June 29. Open to the community. See http://vikesrec.uvic.ca/programs/health-fitness.php.

Gold Medal Researcher

UVic’s Dr. Andreas Antoniou recently won the Craigdarroch Research Gold Medal for Career Achievement. His discoveries paved the way for the miniaturization of circuits that are now used in everyday devices such as your cell phone and high definition TV.

Did you know?

Over two thousand faculty, staff and students ride their bicycles daily to UVic. Stay tuned for the Bike to Work Week, which will take place this year from May 30 to June 5.

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