– 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 […]
Beacon Landing Restaurant & Lounge Celebrates a Decade of Dining
– 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,
Smell the Coffee: Teenage Coffee Culture Pt I
– 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
In Good Health: Hear – Central Saanich
– 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
– 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
Keeping It Simple and Personal
