by Tina Kelly – Nestled beside a bus shelter at Bowerbank Road and Resthaven Drive, in Sidney, is a can. The kind of can my grandmother’s coffee came in. This particular can is full of sand, having been transformed into an ashtray to collect the cigarette butts of bus riders, preventing them from washing into […]
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by Deborah Rogers – We started our May meeting with a little slide show; making the most of our online capabilities! For a book that is as colourful and evocative as Alice Hoffman’s The Marriage of Opposites, it was an extra gift to be able to look at the paintings of Camille Pissarro whose life
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by Jo Barnes | photo by Amanda Cribdon Photography – Some artists create precise pictures of the real world. But this Saanich Peninsula artist offers us pictures of new fantastical worlds. Based out of Sidney, Brenda Milne is a painter and sculptor who delves into her imagination and produces a unique line of fantasy art.
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by Heidi Hackman & Colleen McNamee, District Career Coordinators, SD 63photo by Amanda Cribdon Photography – While this month’s edition of Seaside Magazine is focused on Men to Watch, we decided to profile a female student who is making inroads in a male-dominated trade. Women currently make up just four percent of the electrical and
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by Deborah Rogers | photo by Amanda Cribdon Photography – I’ve experienced many modes of transportation writing my Day Out column these past few years – sports car, sailboat, kayak, horse – but none has had me smile quite as much as this month’s outing! My cyclist husband has raced on road, track and trail,
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