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By michellekirby, May 15, 2011 11:24 am

Contributed by Sonja Ruthe, Oak Bay Emergency Preparedness Coordinator

The Oak Bay Emergency Program and the District of Oak Bay would like to invite you to a presentation by the Master in Disaster and Emergency Management (MADEM) students from Royal Roads University. We have been privileged to partner again with Royal Roads in the above project. It is very exciting for our community!

A team of 10 students have worked tirelessly over the past 2 1/2 weeks, meeting with staff, Council, community members and emergency management staff and volunteers, as well as reviewing documents, plans and community initiatives. They have worked to identify our community’s strengths, gaps and strategies to address those gaps which will help us to move towards applying to receive a United Nations designation as being a Disaster Resilient “Role Model” for other cities worldwide.

The Oak Bay RRU team will present their final report on how Oak Bay can move forward to become designated internationally as a Disaster Resilient “Role Model” City. Their assessment is based on a 10-point Checklist identified by the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters. The UN initiative on Disaster Resilient Communities is called ” Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready”.

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By michellekirby, April 19, 2011 4:31 pm

“The best way to get to know a neighbourhood, is to walk it.”
- Jane Jacobs

The weekend of May 7th and 8th, there will be a number of Jane’s Walks throughout the region. You’ll get a little exercise, fresh air, and learn some things you likely never knew about the history of your neighbourhood, or even some of the issues facing it today.

If you’re looking for one nearby, check out the Shelbourne Valley Jane’s Walk.

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By michellekirby, April 13, 2011 9:23 pm

Start your Earth Day celebrations with either a walk or a ride in your community! We’ll all be gathering in the parking lot next to Emmanuel Baptist Church at 11:00 AM on Good Friday, April 22nd, and making our way to the Family Picnic and other events next to Uplands Park. Hope you can join us!

View Earth Day Celebration Walk or Bike Routes in a larger map

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By michellekirby, April 10, 2011 10:39 am

Your Community Association is busy planning with the Friends of Uplands Park for our Oak Bay Earth Day Celebration on Friday, April 22nd! Earth Day 2011 Poster

For our part, the CAOB is leading a bike ride from UVic to Cattle Point via a route we like to call The Educational Corridor. The route starts from our University, passes Camosun College, Carnarvon Park (Preschool/Daycare), Oak Bay High School, SMU Jr. School, and Glenlyon Norfolk School, and lands us at Cattle Point where we’ll finish up with a picnic with the Friends of Uplands Park.

View Earth Day Celebration Bike Route in a larger map

The Friends of Uplands Park are planning plenty of activities to participate in and enjoy all day!

Schedule of Events

9:00am —- Bird Walk at Cattle Point

11:00am —- Earth Day Bike Ride along the Oak Bay “Educational Corridor” starting at UVic, visiting Willows School, Oak Bay High, Monterey School, gathering riders at each school along the way.

11:00am —– An Earth Day Walk starting from UVic to end at Uplands Park.

12:00 Noon —- Picnic & Music: Walkers and bike riders and other participants arrive at Uplands Park for family & friends picnic

12:15 (or so) —- Official Welcome

1:00 —- Guided Nature Walks (1 walk will be at Cattle point; 1 walk will be along the trails in Uplands Park)

2:15 —- Guided Nature Walks (1 walk will be at Cattle point; 1 walk will be along the trails in Uplands Park)

Noon – 3:30: Other activities include:
———– Music by The Bald Eagles
———– Face Painting
———– Treasure Hunt
———– Bubbles
———– Uplands Park Map Display
———– GOERTS and HAT displays
———– Invasive Species Removal

3:30 —- Official Closing

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By michellekirby, April 5, 2011 8:01 pm

It’s time again for our Annual General Meeting! Please join us for elections of new Directors, and a presentation by Saanich Councillor Vic Derman on The Natural City.

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By michellekirby, April 1, 2011 8:34 pm

The latest edition of the Oak Bay Connector, the Community Association of Oak Bay’s newsletter, has been published!

Please see the Wednesday, March 31st centre fold of the Oak Bay News for your copy, or have a look here!

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By michellekirby, April 1, 2011 8:03 pm

TOWN HALL MEETING

Tuesday, April 12, 2011
7:00 PM in the Garry Oak Room, Monterey Recreation Centre at 1442 Monterey Avenue

Oak Bay Municipal Council invites residents to a Town Hall meeting to discuss in an open forum any items of interest. Everyone is welcome to attend.
For more information contact the Oak Bay Municipal Hall at 250-598-3311.

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By michellekirby, March 18, 2011 8:33 am

A Billion Acts of Green, and our Earth Day Celebration is one of them! Join the Community Association of Oak Bay in our pledge to celebrate Earth Day, Good Friday, April 22, 2011.

We are organizing a bike ride from UVic along what we call the “Educational Corridor” that connects cyclists from school to school in Oak Bay, ending with an Oceanside ride back up to Cattle Point. At the same time, a group will be enjoying a walk from UVic down through the Uplands to Cattle Point, where we will all join together with the Friends of Uplands Park to celebrate with food and live music, and many other activities that they have planned for the afternoon.

If you want to join us, stay tuned here for updates, or have a look in our upcoming issue of The Connector newsletter in the centrefold of the Oak Bay News, Wednesday, March 30th, 2011.

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By michellekirby, March 10, 2011 12:03 pm

Love your tweed? Love your bicycle? On Saturday, May 7th, 2011 you can join a stylish ride from the Inner Harbour to Oak Bay, in The Tweed Ride Victoria.

The Tweed Run London started the trend in the Fall of 2009, and have been cropping up all over the world. It’s a slower paced ride with style, with a stop for a spot of tea mid-way, judging of the most stylish of the group, and ending at the The Penny Farthing Pub in Oak Bay (where else?!). The added bonus? 100% of your Registration Fee ($5.00) for Tweed Ride Victoria will go to purchasing a stretcher/ ambulance-bike for rural clinics in Malawi.

For more information, or to register, please visit The Tweed Ride Victoria.

To get yourself in the spirit, have a watch of this video:

Tweed Ride 2010 from Steven Greenstreet on Vimeo.

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By michellekirby, February 26, 2011 5:55 pm

Contributed by Margaret Lidkea and Kathleen Matthews, Co-Founders of Friends of Uplands Park

Also upcoming:

CARPET BURWEED PATROL on Sunday March 27 at 1:30 at Cattle Point

Please RSVP to Margaret Lidkea 250-595-8084 mlidkea@shaw.ca or Kathleen Matthews 250-598-7995 kathleenmatt@gmail.com Newcomers welcome.

EARTH DAY CELEBRATION Planning Meeting on Thursday March 24th, 7 to 9 at 1894 St. Ann Street. Friends of Uplands Park is partnering with the Community Association of Oak Bay for an Earth Day Celebration which will be held on Good Friday, April 22, 2011 from 12 to 3:30PM. We need volunteers to help with some of the activities.