TOGETHER WITH | | COMMUNITY EVENTS | 🏃♀️ Oak Bay Half Marathon is on Sunday, May 25.
🎡 Oak Bay Tea Party will return to Willows Park, June 6-8. Check out the details of the annual summer fair, including the parade schedule, food, kids' craft centre, and the floating tea cup challenge. | 🏂 Summer camp spaces available for July-August at Sir James Douglas Out of School Club & Preschool | 📃 Official Community Plan update tomorrow 9am-1pm. |
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| | IN THE NEWS | 🏠️ Province orders Oak Bay to make changes to bylaws to build more housing
Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon says Oak Bay has not come close to reaching its housing goals, and is on track to fall short again by the end of the year. In 2023, Oak Bay had a target of 56 homes but only built 16. It must have 665 new homes built by 2028, and the province says the municipality must change some bylaws, including the one about how many parking spots are needed per unit. [Capital Daily] | 🚨 Oak Bay police respond to 68 calls, including a child hit on a bike
Last Wednesday, a vehicle and a bicycle collided on Landsdowne, near Foul Bay. The child—who was wearing a helmet—was taken to the hospital but appeared to be OK. The driver is cooperating in the ongoing investigation. OB police also pulled over two drivers suspected of impaired driving, one on May 12, the other on May 18, and a May 13 roadblock stopped 60 vehicles, with none of the drivers found to be impaired. [CHEK] | 🏍️ Motorcyclist clocked at 145km/h in Beach Dr. 40km/h zone
On May 12, the driver of the bike, a 19-year-old, was spotted at Beach and Newport doing almost four times the allowed speed limit and was issued a speeding ticket. Their bike was impounded for seven days, too. Six days later, just down Beach, a driver, 18, was caught doing 98 km/hr, more than twice the limit. They also got pinched for not displaying an “N” decal to signify they’re a new driver, and their vehicle was impounded for a week. [Oak Bay Police] | 🏃 Expect road closures for Sunday’s Oak Bay Half Marathon
For the 19th time, Oak Bay will be a sea of runners and walkers this Sunday as the OB Half Marathon, Relay, 10K, and Dairyland Kids 1K take place. The half-marathon is slated to start at 8am at Windsor Park and conclude by noon. Except Newport at Oak Bay, which will be closed for less than an hour, look for most streets to be shut down for one to three hours. The start/end of the race is at Windsor between Transit and St. David, and will be closed from 6am to 12pm. [Black Press] | 🏊️ Oak Bay Pool to close from June 2 to June 22 for maintenance
It’s the annual cleanup period for the rec centre, so it will be off-limits for three weeks next month. It’s slated to reopen June 23 at 6am. Valid OB Rec memberships wil be accepted at other regional rec centre pools: Commonwealth, Gordon Head, Panorama, Esquimalt, Crystal, Juan de Fuca, and SEAPARC. Questions can be posed at 250-595-7946. | 🎾 Since 2013, the Society for Kids at Tennis has transformed underserved children's lives through sport. The program took off in its first year, providing tennis lessons to around 2,000 children yearly. Recently, the program passed the 20,000 participant mark. Read more about how retired physician Sy Silverberg and his wife came up with the idea.* | *Sponsored Listing | | 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 | Local wonders whether white sailboat was abandoned | The boat was anchored in Cadboro Bay but drifted away in a storm last week. Somebody tied it off to a mooring, but the mystery remains: who owns it? The author of the post says they’ll keep the vessel if nobody comes forward to claim it. Locals speculate who the owner is. | |
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| | | Residents debate pest sprayer’s persistence | A South Oak Bay local posts about a pest spray company worker knocking on their door and trying hard to make a sale. The local thought the young fellow may have shown too much tenacity. Locals debate whether he was just doing his job or had become the very thing his job description demands he sprays. | |
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| | IN OTHER NEWS | | Plants a plenty for a new friend | A local has these beautiful buttercups and Forget-Me-Not, which they say are easy to grow, don’t need to be watered, and are deer-resistant. You want ‘em for your garden? The poster, who lives near the Royal Jubilee Hospital, says they’ll happily dig them out for you. | |
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| | PHOTO OF THE WEEK |  | Image credit: Angela Meredith Gabaldon |
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