A final State-of-the-District address by Mayor Maja Tait last week spanned nearly 12 minutes, encompassing everything she has overseen with the current council over the previous four years, and she announced a unique, personal project she has worked on.

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The speech began sombrely but ended lighter.

Council was elected in October 2018 and soon faced the death of Coun. Brenda Parkison.

There were also homelessness issues, a heat dome, the death of three young men in a Sooke River accident, the death of cancer patient Hannah Day, opioid poisoning, and a war in Ukraine.

And then there was the COVID pandemic.

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Tait credited council for working as a team and gave more lavish praise to district staff, who B次元官网网址渃almly rose to the occasionB次元官网网址� on numerous issues.

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First-term Coun. Megan McMath was among councillors who praised council and staff, calling it B次元官网网址渁 wild four years.B次元官网网址�

B次元官网网址淣o matter how wild things got or controversial, the one thing that I was always grateful for this entire time is weB次元官网网址檝e always stayed connected,B次元官网网址� McMath said.

In a lighter vein, the mayor revealed that she had kept a gratitude journal for the past four years. She wrote something unique about each councillor after every meeting.

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Tait said she is also writing a book as a healthy outlet from her political work. The project started as a book of short stories and morphed into a full-length work.

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