| | | COMMUNITY NEWS | 😟 Oak Bay High students were on hold & secure today after parents and community members were told there was a threat outside the school that required students and teachers to stay inside their classrooms. There are no official reports yet about what happened, however, parents say the threat was lifted in the early afternoon. [Oak Bay Local] | 🚨 Oak Bay police are reminding the public to once again watch out for fraud after a resident reported a disturbing video they got in a text, showing a man holding a rifle and claiming to be in the mafia. [Oak Bay Police] | 💯 Give your immune system a boost with personalized IV therapy at Glow Integrative Clinic. Book your first appointment with Dr. Whitney Baxter here.* | 🏧 A 7- year-old woman deposited her car into the window of an RBC in Oak Bay in the middle of the afternoon on Oct. 24. She was fine, and the accident was determined to be due to a driver error. [Oak Bay Police] | 🔑 A missing set of keys were found at Windsor Park. Could they be yours? [Oak Bay Local] | 🧵 Two women launched a sewing initiative across the CRD to help newcomers to the community deal with loneliness and isolation. Immigrants are at an increased risk of isolation and one woman said sewing helped her express herself and deal with her trauma after she fled her home country. [Oak Bay News] | 🖼 Oak Bay’s Avenue Art Gallery features artist Linda Wilder, whose paintings of mountains, waterfalls and abstract shapes are on display until Nov. 4. [The Avenue Gallery] | *Sponsored Listing | Do you ever experience loneliness and isolation? | | | 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 with extra Halloween candy | Some lucky Oak Bay locals were wondering what to do with piles of unexpectedly leftover candy bars from Halloween. Some commenters had a field day with offering to post their own home addresses, while others had some helpful suggestions. | One group, St Patrick’s Elementary School, uses the leftovers to make Christmas crackers for charity Christmas dinners. Also, the group Mamas for Mamas had many families who were looking, and 1330 Fairfield Gonzales Community Association has a food panty outside, where the candy could be dropped off. Another local said they pair theirs with hand warmers in mini ziplock bags to create care packages that they hand out to people, and include a little note in each bag that their kids write. | |
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| | | Friends of Bowker Creek calls for schools to use living turf | The volunteer group, which has been at work for years to restore the habitat in Bowker Creek is urging the school district to learn from the two Astroturf breakdowns at Oak Bay High School, which prompted volunteers to clean up 60 pounds of rubber clumps this week. The group wants them to recognize that artificial turf does not belong beside Bowker Creek due to how it pollutes streams, worsens climate change effects and frees carcinogens into the environment. | They say the artificial turf contains known carcinogens and fish toxins. Notably, 6PPD-Quinone, a car tire chemical, which they say is a proven Coho salmon killer when it washes down storm drains in autumn rainstorms. Friends of Bowker Creek is part of a study of 6PPD-Quinone pollution in Vancouver Island streams and they want the school district to change back to living turf. Some commenters suggested fining the district in order to fund the remediation. | |
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| | IN OTHER NEWS | | Beautiful barn owl | Oak Bay locals reported several sightings of a beautiful barn owl near Lafayette Park this week. Have you seen it? | |
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| | PHOTO OF THE WEEK |  | Photo credit: Mary McArthur |
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