In partnership with | | COMMUNITY EVENTS | 🥅 Century Celebration of Victoria Cougars Hockey, on Saturday and Sunday. Festivities include minor hockey clinics, ball hockey tournaments, public skating, and a special appearance by the Stanley Cup. | ⛹️♂️ The new spring/summer Oak Bay Active Living program guide is available for viewing now. | 🐦 Bird Walk with Friends of Uplands Park on Sunday, March 30, from 9am to 11am. This month’s Friends of Uplands Park bird walk with Geoffrey and David Newell will start in the main parking lot at Cattle Point. They usually find 50+ species during this 2-3 hour bird walk, more info here. | 💃🏼 Glamma’s Night Out - Dinner & Live Music for Oak Bay Grandmas. Friday, April 4, from 6pm to 9:30pm at The Oaks Restaurant. | 🎼 Enjoy a free community concert every Thursday from 6:30pm to 7:15pm at Eric Martin Pavilion Theatre. A different band is featured each time. Bring your friends and family to this free, dry event, with snacks and refreshments provided. Please use the Fort St. entrance (glass sliding doors). | ✍🏽 Story Studio aims to inspire, educate, and empower youth to be great storytellers. It’s an award-winning organization that offers creative “fun-first” writing workshops for youth of all ages to create incredible stories. Read more here. * | *Sponsored Listing | |
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| IN THE NEWS | 🚨Oak Bay Police issue speeding ticket to a driver visiting from New Brunswick. The $368 fine and a seven-day impoundment of the car came from an officer who was conducting speed enforcement on Henderson, just north of Kendal. The driver was caught going 95 kilometres an hour in a 40 km/h zone, police said. [Oak Bay Police] | 👨🏼🍳 Oak Bay’s Chef on the Run caters to Buy Canadian movement. Chef on the Run has churned out pre-made meals, desserts, and snacks in Oak Bay for 43 years, using ingredients from Canada, the United States, and other countries. However, over the last few months, the business has chosen to steer clear of ingredients grown, raised, and produced in the US. [Oak Bay News] | 🏢 Threshold buys $1.7M Oak Bay building in effort to curb homelessness for youth. Threshold Housing Society now has 56 housing units, including 34 apartments across the CRD, on six properties, four of them owned. The Oak Bay building’s purchase was made possible thanks to one particular donation. [Victoria News] | 🍦Parachute Ice Cream is opening a new location in Oak Bay soon, which will be located at 2548 Windsor. [Parachute Ice Cream] | | | P.S. Did someone forward you this email*? Subscribe here. | | PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT | To join the conversation, become a member of the Oak Bay Local Facebook Group | | Comment moderation | Many locals have noted the increasing volume of political posts leading up to the federal election on April 28. Many individual users are posting and sharing information. Others are posting partisan information that can contain misinformation and/or information designed to frame the other side as good or bad. | As moderators, we like to encourage active debates about issues that matter to the community on Oak Bay Local. Some community members have asked why posts continue to be open, while others are either removed or turned off, which is rarely used and only as a last resort, or if someone is disrespecting another individual. | We try to keep posts "local" in nature. Political posts (especially discussing individual parties) are very challenging to moderate. During campaigns in the past, we have encouraged locals to post information about where to vote, debate times, and other available information. We will comment if we are turning posts off, and we always respect differences of opinion. | | |
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| More popular posts | Some much-anticipated owl news. Did anyone lose their phone in Estevan Village? Does anyone know where to get an "Elbows Up" T-shirt in Victoria? What’s that rumbling sound? Does anyone have any leads on where to get beetroot hummus?
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| New restaurant set to open in Oak Bay | Liv Cafe & Bistro is slated to open in about two weeks or so. And management is looking to hire people who are a good fit with the company’s food philosophy. | Nestled within Victoria’s quaint Oak Bay neighbourhood, Liv is an ingredient-driven restaurant. The philosophy is simple: as the seasons change, so does the menu, which aims to reflect what grows seasonally on the Island and around. | Liv is focused on simplicity and elegance, and is about creating an experience, not just a meal. | | | |
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| | IN OTHER NEWS |  | Image credit: Neil Dickie |
| Cherry blossoms on Moss | Oak Bay Local community member Neil Dickie shared his view, looking south to the Olympic Mountains, past the just-out Cherry blossoms on Moss, on Wednesday.
“As I took the photo, a City of Victoria arborist stopped to tell me that in about a week, the blossoms will be even fuller,” he said. | |
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