COMMUNITY EVENTS | 🌚 Oak Bay Night Markets will continue on every second Wednesday this summer. The next one will be Wednesday, July 10 from 4-8pm where Oak Bay Village transforms into a European style street market with fresh and local produce, food and artisanal goods. More info here. | 🎶 Summer Concerts in the Park are set to begin Saturday, June 29 at 2pm at Willows Park in the grassy area. Concerts will highlight local musicians with emerging artists as opening acts. Presented by Oak Bay Parks, Recreation and Culture. | 🌈 Pride swim will be held Saturday, June 29 from 7:30pm to 10pm at Oak Bay Recreation Centre Pool, at 1075 Bee St. The swim is for the LGBTQ2SIA+ community, their friends, families, and allies and will be an evening filled with fun, games and prizes. | 🎨 Indigenous Artist Market on Saturday, from 10am to 4pm at the Royal BC Museum. The market features the work of several Indigenous creators. | 🧘🏻♀️ Summer Yoga in Abkhazi Garden starts June 26 and will take place on Wednesdays from 6:30-7:30pm for $15 per class. Email Kaitlyn at omoutsideyoga@gmail.com to reserve your spot! |
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| | COMMUNITY NEWS | 🚨 Teen with learner’s permit caught driving 121 km/h in a 50 zone in Oak Bay. The 16-year-old was caught on Foul Bay at 1:45 in the morning last Friday. The teen received more than $800 in fines for speeding, having too many passengers, operating a motor vehicle with cannabis in it, and failing to display his learner’s designation. [Oak Bay Police] | 🚌 Feedback wanted on new RapidBus linking Uptown to UVic. BC Transit and the Victoria Regional Transit Commission plan to add Route 96 Blink, a RapidBus line which would move riders along McKenzie “in the blink of an eye.” Public sessions were held this week to gather feedback on the route. There’s also an online survey open until July 2. [BC Transit] | 🎟 Fake Taylor Swift tickets sold in Oak Bay. Two people each paid around $5K for tickets that turned out to be fake. In each case, the victim thought Facebook friends were selling them the tickets, which was actually a hacker who posed as actual friends. The case is being investigated. [Times Colonist] | 🚵♂️ Toronto man embarks on cross-Canada bike ride. Eric Paton took off from the Terry Fox statue at Mile Zero in an effort to raise $100,000 for Food Banks Canada’s After the Bell program. Many students rely on healthy food from school during the year, and the summer can be a time when many kids go hungry. Support his efforts here. [Oak Bay News] | Have you ever needed support from the food bank? | | | 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 | Plants stolen from Henderson Recreation Centre's floral display | Oak Bay locals have been venting about two large Alocasia plants that were stolen from the floral display at the Henderson Rec Centre in hopes that the community will spread awareness of this incident and identify the culprits involved. | While the nearly 50 commenters were outraged, one person noted that “this happens all over town”. Several also noted that they’ve had large plants stolen from their own properties, with little hope of a resolution. | There will be a horticultural reward offered for any information leading to the recovery of these plants or for any helpful leads. | |
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| Oak Bay Special Council meeting seen as setback to more housing | Oak Bay locals were expressing disappointment about the recent Oak Bay Special Council meeting to discuss the changes for infill housing and provincial mandate that the proposal to reduce the two off-street parking spots to one has been defeated by the mayor and several councillors. | Several others were concerned about the implications this will have on creating more housing options in the community, as well as better bus services and cycling infrastructure. The original poster said “I don’t understand how Oak Bay cannot move forward, we are trying to renovate our basement to a LEGAL suite but the amount of red tape is ridiculous.” Several commenters echoed the sentiment, with one saying it’s “[a]bsolutely nutty that car parking is a requirement of offering a rental unit. Tenant parking is not the landlord’s problem, anymore than is providing a garden or swimming pool.” | While the vast majority of commenters agreed with the original poster, one commenter presented a different view, writing that “[t]he less they do to support the provincial mandate, the better.” The conversation was largely respectful and sparked a conversation about how the housing situation can improve in Oak Bay. | | |
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| | IN OTHER NEWS | | Local bread drop now available on Thursdays | Local baker Brendon Ross will once again be offering a bread drop on Thursdays at 776 St. Patrick St. between 11am and 1pm. There will be three types of bread available, including: | | Order by dropping a comment here. |
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| | | PHOTO OF THE WEEK |  | Photo credit: Barbara Churchill, c/o LaVerne Churchill |
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