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 […]
COMMON CENTS – When to Consider Switching Your Mortgage
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
THE GOLDEN YEARS – Is Arthritis Synonymous with Aging? Pt. 1
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
GOING GREEN – The Miscellany List
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
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.
ARTS SCENE – Brenda Milne: The Art of Imagination
