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by Annilee Armstrong -  News, changes, updates, launches? Email noteworthyseaside@gmail.com. THE WAY THE COOKIES CRUMBLES Tasty Treats Smør Scandinavian Bakery is a new artisan bakery that's creating a buzz at farmer's markets across the Peninsula. Launched in 2022, they specialize in traditional Scandinavian baked goods like Danish rye bread, sweet cardamom buns, soft potato lefse

by Kirsten Roden, Making Changes Fitness -  Exercise is well known for its ability to improve physical health, but did you know that outdoor fitness and exercise can also have a significant impact on our mental health and mood? Living on Vancouver Island we can see so much beauty: from the vast ocean and mountains

by Sue Hodgson -  Recently, one of my writers, Lara Field, shared with me a book she's written. Ricky J. is a personal story of a father, husband, grandfather and son. It's a compendium of three daughters' remembrances of their shared experiences with their late father. It was quite inspiring, and reminded me why we

story and photos by Cynthia Philp -  I was thrilled to receive an invitation to a seminar on constructing a rock garden from Maria Hendrix, of West Bay Rock Gardens, who arranged the event in honour of International Women's day. On a blustery March afternoon, a group of women met on the property of Tienna