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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

by Katharina Stocker | photos courtesy Outlook Project Management -  Between Victoria and the Swartz Bay Ferry terminal sits a stunning stylized Coast Salish Longhouse. The newly renovated building is the office of NIȽ TU,O Child and Family Services Society. As a Coast Salish run organization with a mission to keep children in Coast Salish