– by Susan Tice, Russell Nursery – Christmas means something different to everyone and there are many ways to celebrate it (or not!). Family traditions play an important role in Christmas celebrations and serve to connect us to each other and to our past. These days families are scattered and fragmented, but traditions draw us
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– by Cydney Hellier Gray, Cydney Hellier Gray Design – Welcome to the fast approaching Holiday Season! Here on the West Coast, we are lucky to conjure up different images of how the holidays appear to us, instead of the typical snowy fields and icy sidewalks. More often than not, we are surrounded by trees
On Design: Holiday Decorating – You are the Gift Read More »
– by Doreen Marion Gee – Do you run out of gift ideas during the holidays? And wonder what will light up the face of that hard-to-buy-for person? The interesting shops at Mattick’s Farm have something unique and beautiful for everyone on your shopping list this year. With its Scandinavian roots, The Ladybug Boutique
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– by Doreen Marion Gee – This is part of a rotating series of articles on members of Sidney Meet Up, featuring people in business on the Saanich Peninsula. One starry night in October, there was magic in the air. Happy people received Crystal Awards for Business Excellence from the Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce
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– by Valerie Green – Throughout history, women have lost children for many different reasons such as difficult births resulting in stillborn infants or deaths from such diseases as pneumonia, scarlet fever or smallpox. Today, parents are losing children to an equally horrific kind of death. The tragic end of young lives, which can no
When you’re young, getting caught up in the spirit of the holiday season is easy: Santa, his reindeer, the possibility of a white Christmas, gifts under the tree and countless other things all combine to make December simply magical. Speaking of magic, I believed in Santa Claus until I was 12 years old. Yes: 12!
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Forget everything you know and love about physical magazines. Forget their length. Forget their size. Forget their publishing schedule. Forget everything but what it’s like to come to the end, and to take a deep breath. Doesn’t it feel great? Over the years, we’ve watched technology grow like a child: it starts out mostly crying
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– by Deborah Rogers – While manufacturing across Canada has seen a decline in the past decade, the Saanich Peninsula tells a story of successful investment, development and training that has created a strong commercial sector right within our community. Quietly providing millions of dollars in payroll to the workers of our local economy
Made on the Peninsula: The Economic Powerhouse at the Heart of Our Community Read More »
– by Julian Sale – It’s a bold new automotive landscape. Things started to change in the early 1970s with respect to oil prices, and consumers’ hunger for fuel-efficient cars. North America was accustomed to burning colossal amounts of diesel and gasoline to travel. Japanese and German carmakers offered smaller cars with four-cylinder engines. Drivers
Ignition: Say, What’s Under the Hood Mister? Read More »
For over 24 years you have been operating JayLyn Jewellers, a local store creating the highest quality of custom jewelry. What prompted you to establish this new specialized business idea of EyeSpy Security? As a jeweller in business for just over 30 years, I have been burglarized three times and robbed once at gunpoint. Like
