Words & Photo Saanich Peninsula Community Foundation When the Saanich Peninsula Community Foundation (SPCF) awarded its very first grants in 2002, two local organizations each received $475. Fast forward to 2026, and the Foundation distributed more than $70,000 through community grants and donor-directed gifts. While the numbers have grown, one thing has never changed: our […]
Words Cassidy Nunn “Apparently we’re not really camping people,” I said to my cousin with a sigh as I stared at our massive tent that apparently could sleep nine people. Instead, it held a queen-sized air mattress, a crib mattress for our three-year-old and a foam couch cushion for our six-year-old. Tonight, it would only
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Words & Photos Rosalie Knogler When I ask people if they’ve heard of home children, they often answer “no,” or mistakenly believe these were children evacuated in wartime. During Britain’s Industrial Revolution, people moved to cities, contributing to mass unemployment and housing shortages. Poverty, disease and cholera epidemics left 30,000 dead. The poor were often
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Words & Photos Tina Kelly After a rain, two different rainbows can appear. One evokes a sense of awe and jokes about pots of gold. The other should trigger a sense of ewww and conversations about the environment. The iridescent rainbow of the latter is the shimmer of pollutants on roads, parking lots and driveways.
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Words June Murray Dagnall Have something for New & Noteworthy? Email noteworthy@seasidemagazine.ca. MÁWUEĆ Returns to W̱JOȽEȽP MÁWUEĆ, also known as Woodwyn Farm, is now part of Tsartlip reserve lands, together with a neighbouring property of more than 200 acres. These lands will be held for the use and benefit of W̱JOȽEȽP members and will
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Words Connie Dunwoody Apparently, life comes with a bit of a social calendar. As children, we’re invited to birthday parties. As young adults, it’s weddings. Then come baby showers, graduations, anniversary celebrations and retirement parties. Every stage of life seems to have its own reasons for gathering with loved ones. Then, one day, the invitations
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I was sitting at Harvest Rd the other day, waiting for my lunch to be ready. Looking across the way, I saw a man lounging on a huge beanbag chair, set up on the grass outside his packed-to-the-gills Sprinter van. Maybe he was on his way up- or down-Island, perhaps in the middle of a
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