| COMMUNITY EVENTS | 🦅 Friends of Uplands Park Bird Walk to be held Saturday, July 29. Meet in the main parking lot at Cattle Point at 8am. Fall migration is beginning, and some of the target species include rhinoceros auklet, greater yellowlegs, Heermann’s gull, and many more. | 🧘🏻♀️ Yoga continues at Willows Park beach from 6 to 7pm every Tuesday evening through August. | 🌾 Bowker Creek Brush-Up Outdoor Art Show and Sale to be held Sunday, Aug. 13 from 11am to 4:30pm, outdoors along the shores of Bowker Creek Park between Hampshire Road and Armstrong Avenue. Free to attend! |
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| | COMMUNITY NEWS | 🚨 The Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit has identified a deceased man, and is seeking help from the pubic after the death was deemed “suspicious”. Police are asking anyone with dash cams to check their footage if they were travelling on Beach Drive between Cadboro Bay Village and Gonzales Bay, or the surrounding streets, between 10pm on Tuesday, July 25 until 7am on Wednesday, July 26. [Saanich Police Department] | 🚔 An Oak Bay local filed a police report after a woman tried to lure three children to her car, a grey Mazda 3 hatchback. No one was harmed in the incident, however the original post advised the community to be on the lookout. | 🛳 New regulations to curb cruise ship emissions are causing fears among some business owners that benefit from tourist spending. The new regulation requires that ships slow down in an effort to protect endangered southern resident killer whales. It also means ships could spend less time in port. [Times Colonist] | 😲 A UVic dig found signs of former W̱SÁNEĆ village near Cordova Bay. The five-week-long dig at Agate Lane Park, led by UVic professors and students, has uncovered signs of ȾEL¸IȽĆE, a thousand-year-old village of the W̱SÁNEĆ and Lekwungen-speaking peoples. The dig has led to the discovery of fire pits, slate fishing knives, fish hooks, and food remains. [Times Colonist] | 🌵Greater Victoria, including Oak Bay, experienced the driest six months on record, recording just 222.3 millimetres of rain from January to June, the least since records began in 1940. [Vancouver Island Free Daily] | 🍿 UVic, GVPL turn down request to purchase Pic-A-Flic’s collection of 25,000 video titles. [Times Colonist] | 🦌 UVic’s Oak Bay deer immunocontraception initiative looks ahead to its fall campaign. So far this year, 55 local does are sporting new collars and tags indicating that they’re part of the initiative that aims to help Oak Bay and other communities manage deer populations in the future. [Oak Bay News] | *Sponsored Listing | Have you noticed a change in the amount of deer in Oak Bay since the birth control project began? | | | P.S. Did someone forward you this email? Subscribe here. |
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| | PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT | To join the conversation, become a member of the Oak Bay Local Facebook group | What to do after a bird crashes into a window? | An Oak Bay local reached out to the group in search of advice on who to call after a hawk smashed into their window, losing consciousness. Several locals replied that Wild ARC (BC SPCA’s Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre) can help. The organization is the only wildlife rehabilitation centre on southern Vancouver Island, and is open 365 days a year. It treated 2,459 animals last year from all over the region, helping them recover and return to the wild. Oak Bay locals suggested the original poster give a call to the organization at 1-855-622-7722 to learn more about what it does, and to get advice on the situation. | |
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| | | Parked cars blocking Oak Bay driveways during special events | An Oak Bay local reached out to the group in search of advice on what to do about a car parked in front of their driveway, blocking entry of their vehicle, during a special event last weekend. The original commenter noticed that this was a pattern of behaviour they’ve been inconvenienced by before. Some suggested calling Oak Bay Police and reporting the incident, however they opted to leave a sign on the windshield of the car saying the car owner should “rethink their parking choices”. The sign had been tossed onto the ground. Others suggested placing traffic cones at the end of the driveway for future events, or to call on the municipality for further advice. What would you do? | |
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| | IN OTHER NEWS |  | Photo: Anne Hansen |
| A local’s take on deer-proofing their garden | A local posted their creative take on what they would like to communicate to deer feasting on their garden greens. |
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| | | PHOTO OF THE WEEK |  | Photo: Hazel Braithwaite |
| The Thursday night crowd at Willows Beach for the Soul Shakers. |
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