– by Steve Sakiyama – During my younger, wilder years I had the brilliant idea of driving mom’s blue convertible with the roof down during a beautiful, calm starry night. Sounds good, except it was January in Northern Ontario when the temperature was a balmy three zillion degrees below zero. I bundled up and quietly […]
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– by Linda Hunter – When asked why the restaurant business, Donna replies “after 40 years, it’s what we know.” The popular owners of Sidney’s Beacon Landing Restaurant and Lounge, Donna and Bill Phillips, have been involved in the industry for decades and combining Donna’s background in interior design and Bill’s chartered accounting expertise has
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– by Steve Sheppard – When I was a teenager, a group of six or seven of us would meet up after dinner at a local restaurant to talk and drink cup upon cup of coffee (when refills were free and the coffee tragic). We would add lots of cream and a couple of sugars,
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– by Barry Mathias – This is the fifth in a six-part series of profiles on some great local businesses that are working to keep us all in good health. If you are aware of a gradual or sudden loss of hearing, you need to consult an audiologist. If you live near Brentwood Bay, you
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– by Barry Mathias – When the tourist season is over, Islanders’ minds turn to holidays. In its simpler form, a “holiday” was literally a “holy day” – a day off work. Now, it has come to mean seemingly endless weeks of enforced inactivity, sweating in unpronounceable foreign places, where the food causes havoc with
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– by Sean McNeill – Victoria born and a graduate of Claremont High School, I began my online career in Victoria in 2006, shortly thereafter moving to Vancouver in 2008 while working with a group of young entrepreneurs. We began building an online marketing company specializing in product sales and customer acquisition, and during the
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– by Susan Simosko – Friends & Neighbours is a column about the people who quietly enrich our lives personally and collectively every day. They distinguish themselves by the incredible things they do, whether or not we even notice. It is my pleasure to introduce you to a few of these remarkable people and to
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– by Jennifer Bowles – If you’re anything like me, your television is usually tuned to the Food Network. Shows featuring greasy-spoon diners, lunch counters, and (my all-time favourite) food trucks are all the rage. While food trucks offering all manner of gourmet street food are now the hot places to eat, it can be
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– by Gillian Crowley – The room buzzes with women talking about everything from the latest book they’ve read to golf scores, a hiking trip and the next education awards. These are the lively members of the Saanich Peninsula’s Canadian Federation of University Women club at their monthly meetings. Started in 1994 as a spin-off
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– by Linda Hunter – COMMUNITY Raising the Bar It may be March, but play is always in season on the Peninsula. Just ask the children who are enjoying the latest addition to Centennial Park in Central Saanich: a new playground. Funded by a Government of B.C. Community Recreation Program grant, the municipality worked with
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