by Laura Waters, Snowdon House Gourmet & Gifts | photo by Amanda Cribdon Photography – Long before spring blooms start, you’ll find me gathering fallen branches, clusters of emerald green moss and soft grey lichen that litter the ground from the winter storms. The benefit of having a perennial garden is that there is always […]
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by Dr. Marita Schauch, ND, Tall Tree Integrated Health Centre – With summer right around the corner, I’ve been thinking a lot about sun protection. Add that to the fact that May was Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and it’s definitely the right time to talk about staying safe in the sun! We require
THE NATURAL PATH – A Naturopathic Doctor’s Guide to Sun Protection Read More »
by Dr. Sean Cruz, Shoreline Medical Clinic Sidney – Muscular pain is part of the human condition. Its negative impact on quality of life, however, can be tremendous. In the past it has often seen limited options for treatment but this has changed in recent years. Here is a rough guide to some of these
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by Kerri Roberts, Island Savings Brentwood Bay – Is it time to make a switch, or should your mortgage stay put? With so much information out there, it can be hard to decide. First of all, let’s define some key mortgage terms.• Renew: Unless you pay your entire mortgage balance within the term, you’ll have
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by Sherrin Griffin VP, Operations, Sidney SeniorCare – I woke up one morning sure that George Burns stole my body. I went from a strong, limber and flexible woman to one fraught with chronic stiffness, aching joints and the posture of Quasimodo. At first, I thought my body pain was likely due to accumulative arthritis
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by Tina Kelly – Nestled beside a bus shelter at Bowerbank Road and Resthaven Drive, in Sidney, is a can. The kind of can my grandmother’s coffee came in. This particular can is full of sand, having been transformed into an ashtray to collect the cigarette butts of bus riders, preventing them from washing into
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by Deborah Rogers – We started our May meeting with a little slide show; making the most of our online capabilities! For a book that is as colourful and evocative as Alice Hoffman’s The Marriage of Opposites, it was an extra gift to be able to look at the paintings of Camille Pissarro whose life
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by Jo Barnes | photo by Amanda Cribdon Photography – Some artists create precise pictures of the real world. But this Saanich Peninsula artist offers us pictures of new fantastical worlds. Based out of Sidney, Brenda Milne is a painter and sculptor who delves into her imagination and produces a unique line of fantasy art.
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by Heidi Hackman & Colleen McNamee, District Career Coordinators, SD 63photo by Amanda Cribdon Photography – While this month’s edition of Seaside Magazine is focused on Men to Watch, we decided to profile a female student who is making inroads in a male-dominated trade. Women currently make up just four percent of the electrical and
TRADE STUDENT SPOTLIGHT – Celest Huysmans: Breaking Down Barriers Read More »
