by Chris Sigurdson – Peninsula Landscape Supplies – This summer when most of my plants were at their peak, I noticed overcrowding, voids and plants not performing due to specific environmental conditions in my yard. Time to change it up! I have a plan of perennials requiring dividing, shrubs that need relocating, and additional trees
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by Karen Morgan – Executive Director, SPHHF – Over the last few months, many people have said to me “these are interesting times!” I usually reply with: “May you live in interesting times? I’m told this is an old Chinese curse!” And yet, here we are. The staff at the Saanich Peninsula Hospital have worked
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by Shai Thompson – House of Lily Koi – A well-dressed life starts in a well-organized closet. So many of us have a closet full of clothes with nothing to wear. Sound familiar? We go to the same combinations day in and day out without taking time to assess the opportunities that lie within our wardrobe.
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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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by Ashley Ruffle – Financial Advisor, Edward Jones – It’s good to recognize the value of work and its importance in achieving your life’s goals. But if you’re going to retire comfortably and reach your other financial objectives, you also need to invest – and your investments need to work as hard as you do.
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by Tina KellyShaw Centre for the Salish Sea – What’s in a name? Attaching a moniker to the giant Pacific octopus at the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea is not usually so straightforward. Choosing a theme, community votes and tallying ballots rolls on for weeks before a winner is announced. You may even have
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