– by Doreen Marion Gee – Please visit respective rec centre websites for further programming and registration information MARCH March 16 to 20: Free Swimming Lessons Kids are needed to help budding swimming instructors learn their skills. The lessons are part of the Water Safety Instructor Course. All trainees are supervised. 3 – 14 yrs. Register for one […]
What’s Happening This Spring! For Kids & Teens
– story by Barry Mathias, photography by nuttycake.com – Seaside Investigates Peninsula Housing Challenges and Solutions … International housing affordability survey ‘Demographia – 2015’ rated the Greater Victoria region as the second most expensive place to live in Canada. Housing was certainly on the agenda for many at recent local elections. We asked writer
News From the Home Front: Focus On Sidney
– by Colin Eaton, Garden City Tree & Landscape Ltd. – The definition of a weed is ‘a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, i.e. a plant in the wrong place.’ Many methods of controlling weeds have been developed over the last century. Pesticides were a popular method among some gardeners for almost a generation. Fortunately,
West Coast Gardener: A Healthy Landscape
– by Silvia Bonet, Architect – After World War II North America went through a time of economic restriction. Residential units, 900 sq/ft with 3 bedrooms, accommodated the typical North American family whether they were located in the below-zero regions of the North or the warm areas of the South. In the 1960s and ’70s
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– by Suzanne Morphet – He shoots, he scores! NHL Alumni – two, Cuba Cruise Crew – one. You don’t expect to watch former hockey pros like Bernie Nicholls wielding a stick on the deck of your cruise ship, but Cuba Cruise isn’t like any other cruise line I know. It combines the best of
Secrets from my Suitcase: Cuba: Travel Beyond Varadero
