COMMUNITY EVENTS | 🍁 Canada Day hours on Tuesday: Oak Bay Municipal Hall, Rec Centre, Public Works, Henderson Rec Centre, Monterey Rec Centre: all closed. [Info] | 🚘 25th Annual Oak Bay Collector Car Festival: Register in advance to secure a display spot, to receive your pre-formatted “car card” before the event, and to stay connected with event organizers. July 13. [Info] | 🥕 Oak Bay Night Market returns July 9: Oak Bay Village transforms into a European-style street market with fresh and local produce, food, and artisanal goods. The market runs once a month throughout the summer. Oak Bay Ave. from Municipal Hall (2167 Oak Bay Ave.) to Monterey is closed to traffic from 3pm to 9pm each market day. | 🚣 Victoria Youth Paddling Club summer camps. Weeklong summer camp spots are available for kids aged 9-14. [Info] | 🧘 Yoga in the Park 2025: Free yoga at Willows Beach Park. Experienced instructors lead these free, all-level classes from both Ajna Yoga and Oak Bay Rec. July 1-Aug. 26. 6-7pm. [Info] Free. Donate to Mustard Seed. | 🧘 Yoga at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel: Begin your morning with wellness in mind by joining Sunrise Yoga on the Seaside Gardens Terrace. All summer, every Saturday for an hour, beginning tomorrow at 8am. [Oak Bay Beach Hotel] | 🍴 Sports View Lounge at Oak Bay Rec Centre closed for summer. The event space will be used for day camp programming. It will reopen Sep. 8. [Info] | 🏊🏳️🌈 Oak Bay Pride Swim 2025: This swim is for the LGBTQ2SIA+ community, their friends, families, and supporters. Oak Bay Rec Centre Pool. Tonight. 7pm-10pm. [Info] [Free] | 🐦 Bird Walk with Friends of Uplands Park: Take a hike with Geoffrey and David Newell, along with all the summer residents who are back in their environment. Meet at Cattle Point parking lot. Tomorrow. 9am. [Info] |
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| | IN THE NEWS | 🚓 Oak Bay Police blotter: ‘Significant’ foot injury at Oak Bay roadwork site, flipped golf cart near OB High
Oak Bay police and fire responded to a workplace accident on a construction site at Foul Bay and Oak Bay on June 18, a Wednesday. A male was taken to hospital and WorkSafeBC is on the case. It was one of 77 calls OBPD took in the June 16-17 period. Another involved an alleged assault on Beach Drive. Police said a man and a woman from Nanaimo were involved in an argument in a car on Friday, June 20. The man allegedly was struck several times by his female passenger and was arrested and released with a court date. Another incident on Sunday, June 22, had police responding near Oak Bay High, where a male in his twenties was driving a golf cart “recklessly” enough to have it flip over, police said. He received minor injuries and a charge under the Motor Vehicles Act. [OBPD] | 🏖️ Willows Beach among those under advisory…
Willows registered 191 per 100ml in a fecal matter count, well above the 35 per 100ml threshold for Island Health to issue an advisory recommending against swimming, as well as allowing pets in the water. As of publication, that advisory was still active. [CHEK] | 🚧 …And construction work is coming to the beach, too
Meanwhile, there will be detours to the beach’s Esplanade walkway as construction of an outfall begins next week. The work is part of a project that includes the replacement of storm, sewer, and water mains along Estevan from Willows Beach to Heron and Lincoln, from Estevan to Burdick. [Oak Bay] | 👮 Oak Bay, Saanich police deal set to expire on Monday
The five-year agreement that allows Oak Bay to acquire the services of Saanich officers to investigate major crimes was first signed in 2007 and has been re-upped several times. The deal will continue during negotiations even if those talks go past Monday, OBPD Chief Julie Chanin said. [CTV] | ☑️ Last week’s poll results: What’s the No. 1 issue you, as an Oak Bay resident, would like to see change? | | Some of the comments: | “Lack of affordable housing.” | “Parking on narrow streets makes driving difficult.” | “Homelessness from Victoria not spilling into Oak Bay.” | “Stop it with the bike lanes! We don’t need them in Oak Bay.” | Are you planning to stay in Oak Bay for Canada Day? | | | 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 | Is Oak Bay on Gilligan’s Island? | Mary McArthur Photography takes and posts many scenic and beautiful pictures. This time, Mary sent along an earworm of a ditty that will take many back to their childhood TV viewing. Tell me this song won’t be in your head for the next hour or so! | |
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| | | Late-night prank not a laughing matter | This is a strange one. A local was awoken just after midnight five days ago by someone knocking on their front door. They said they needed to use the washroom. They let the young lady in. Less than an hour later, they said five boys and a girl were knocking on a neighbour’s door, again asking to use the loo, so obviously, it was some kind of prank. The local says they may think twice about being so kind as to help out a stranger. | |
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| | What do you do if you find a dead deer? | A local spotted the body of a deer in front of Willows School on the Musgrave side. It was late at night, and they didn’t want the kids to see it in the morning. The problem was, who do you call for this late at night? | |
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| | PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Beautiful, live deer |  | Photo credit: Marcelle O’Reilly |
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