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Your West Coast Culture. A magazine about the people and places that make the Saanich Peninsula the little piece of paradise we call home.

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West Coast Garden: The Winter Garden – a Cure for the December Doldrums!

by Matt Hall, Wildwood Nurseries It’s hard to be enthused about your garden in the heart of a coastal winter. The days are short and gloomy and the spring flush of snow drops and daffodils are still months away. However, there are some horticultural cures to the “December doldrums.” Yuletide Camellia (camellia sasanqua; “Yuletide”). There aren’t

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A Home To Stay In Forever

  Story by Janice Henshaw; photography by nuttycake.com. The three-storey, oceanfront Brentwood Drive home owned by Les and Violet Craik started out as an early 1940s cottage. Built on a south-facing double lot, it has seen many renovations over the years. Violet explains why they started this most recent renovation: “we loved the house the

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Can We Talk

Associate Publisher Deborah Rogers Talks With SPRIG Chair Mabel Jean Rawlins and Secretary Nola Silzer.   In September 2015 when the world was confronted by images of Syrians desperate to flee their war torn country – symbolized so heartbreakingly by the story of Alan Kurdi, his tiny body washed up on a Turkish beach – people

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Scene Around Town

  Photos by www.nuttycake.com, taken at the SPHF Gala and the Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce Crystal Awards. 1-6 SPHF Gala, Church & State Winery: 1. Karen Morgan, Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation (SPHF); Elizabeth May, MP 2. Renn Bibeau, SPHF; Jodi Jantzen, Saanich Peninsula Hospital 3. Stasia Hartley, Bayshore Home Health; Brett Hartley 4. Dr. Ambrose Marsh,

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First Word with Sue Hodgson

Ah, innovation! To break from the old and usher in the new: a new watch or phone, a new battery, a new art form, the next clean energy source, a new potato slicer. The world economy and humankind thrive on innovation. It changes lives and history, it brought the Industrial Revolution, automobiles, electricity, jazz and

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Scene Around Town

  photos by www.nuttycake.com 1. Donna Finlayson, Wine Kitz Sidney; Paula Grypma, Outlooks Design 2. Seaside Magazine Publisher & Owner Sue Hodgson 3. Kevin Matthews & Laura McKenzie, Tall Tree Integrated Health Centre (Winner: Branding) 4. Lucas Copplestone, McTavish Academy of Art (Winner: Innovation) 5. Jim Townley, MC for the evening; President, Fresh Cup Roastery

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Vancouver Island’s Innovative Trio

by Paula Kully –  What do agriculture, landscaping and trucking having in common? Here on Vancouver Island, it’s the use of technology and innovation to start-up or grow business. Greater Victoria is rapidly gaining notoriety as a hotbed for high tech innovation and manufacturing. The Victoria Innovation, Advanced Technology and Entrepreneurship Council (VIATEC) estimates 867

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