by Sherrin Griffin – VP, Operations, Sidney SeniorCare – Some of my best childhood memories are when I stayed overnight at my grandparents’ house. My Nana and I would stay up way past my normal bedtime, drinking hot chocolate and watching old comedies together. I remember asking her once why she stayed up so late […]
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by Jo Barnes – On a successful farm, care is taken to make sure crops are well planted. For this local farm success also comes from being well transplanted.With family farming roots tracing back to the Gordon Head area since 1920, the farm known as Firbank thrived in the 1940s in Cordova Bay and continues
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by Deborah Rogers – Book club online is definitely better than no book club and I was really pleased to see so many friendly faces again this month for our Zoom meeting. We had chosen Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles as our book for discussion – in part because it is out of
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by Paula Kully – News, changes, updates, launches? Email news@seasideamagazine.ca. THIS ISN’T GOODBYE So Long to a Long-Time FriendExist Hairworx, located at Seaport Place in Sidney, closed its doors in mid-August after 21 years in the community! The good news is, all of their staff are staying on the Peninsula. Thank you to Sam Quinn
by Deborah Roger – It’s not all glamorous gigs! I’m heading in a different direction for my Day Out this month. A reader invited me to try the newly launched North Saanich Repair Café: the answer to a question that one of the volunteer organizers, Marlyn, posed herself at a Zero Waste workshop: What can
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