by Julian Sale, Motorize Auto Direct – With every passing day, engineers in Canada, Germany, Korea, America, Japan, Mexico, and India are developing and implementing new ideas to pollute less and recycle more. We’re not just talking about emissions from the tailpipes: we’re talking about using recycled products to build cars, and using less fossil […]
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by Gillian Crowley – Kat Eggleston at Deep Cove Folk Concert Kat Eggleston has inspired audiences all over the world with her strong, clear voice and fingerstyle guitar technique, her interpretation of traditional music and her own original songs. She has collaborated onstage and in recordings with a variety of musicians over the years, including
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by Trysh Ashby-Rolls – Kim Goldberg left school at age 15 “to let the world be teacher.” What the world taught the Nanaimo writer in that “psychedelic, strobe-lit era of free-love” on the Oregon coast led her to keep a secret for the next 40 years. Experimenting with drugs using shared needles is the most
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by Valerie Green – On April 16 1856, Governor James Douglas officially announced the discovery of gold in British Columbia, declaring that all gold found would be the property of the Crown. And did you know that the first B.C. census was taken in April 1871? The questionnaire sent out asked a total of 211
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trendspotting by Susi McMillan | photography by www.nuttycake.com TASTES OF FIR Get ready for the host season. Convenient comfort foods for easy entertaining or soulful gift giving – some are made with the unique taste of local Douglas fir. Locally made on the Peninsula with a true sense of Canadian spirit. Yummy eh? Douglas
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article by Barry Mathias | photography by Tafe Real Estate Services This attractive, recently built, 6,000-square-foot house is set back from the road with an expansive stamped concrete driveway in front, and is cleverly positioned in the middle of a gently sloping site on a quiet treed road in the Deep Cove area. “My wife,
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by Yvonne Bulk, Patio Gardens – So what about those home remedies and gardening tips? Are they true or false? Before tossing your coffee grinds and egg shells, give this article a read. Some of these tricks may not be scientifically proven (yet); however, many a gardener might swear by them anyway. Are your pots
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by Krista Rossato, id8 Design – The past few months have brought record-breaking global temperatures, reaching milestones we were hoping to never see. As I read the news that the average temperature across the Northern Hemisphere reached a dangerous 2°C above the mark that had long been set as “normal,” I instantly thought about the
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by Doreen Marion Gee – The benefits to children of being active, moving and exercising go far beyond what experts could ever have imagined. “Physical Literacy” is as essential to the overall well-being of children as being academically literate. Nobody knows this better than the staff at Panorama Recreation Centre. A 2011 ground-breaking paper, Physical Activity,
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After 23 years in the Interior Design Industry, local designer Paula Grypma introduces Cover Story Bedding, a concept where many of the duvet and sham cover ensembles provide four variations, allowing subtle or more dramatic changes to your finished bedroom. Working from her studio, Outlooks Design, in Sidney, B.C., Paula specializes in window coverings and
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