by Dr. Kristen Bovee, Peninsula Naturopathic Clinic, Hydrate IV Wellness Centre – Our digestion is arguably the foundation of our health. It impacts us on many levels, such as energy levels, pain syndromes and mood disorders. Most often the main reason patients seek my help is for digestive disorders or diseases. When trying to find
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by Anne Miller – I learned long ago that, much as we love something, inevitably it comes to an end. Endings are sometimes met with sadness or regret, as in the case of watching Star Cinema collapse into rubble not long ago, leaving a hollow space where, once, warm memories were made. But, as owner
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by Paula Kully – News, changes, updates, launches? Email news@seasideamagazine.ca. NEW VENTURES & ADVENTURES Onward and SeawardTrue to her entrepreneurial spirit, Laura McLarty, owner of Flush Bathroom Essentials in Sidney, is branching out. Laura is opening SEAWARDS Souvenir and Apparel Shop at #107 – 2506 Beacon Avenue in the former Victoria Lavender location this March.
by Sheila Henn CPA, CA | Paterson Henn CPA – Do you have a side business or profits from a business or hobby that should be reported on your tax return? What about online sales, or sales from the craft fair? Your business may be growing and has a profit which is great news! Unfortunately,
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by Deborah Rogers – It won’t have escaped the notice of anyone who’s been in a liquor store recently that there’s been an explosion in the beer section. Craft brewing is having a day (well, a decade) and there are more varieties than you could reasonably sample. What’s interesting is that they’re coming from small
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by Tina Kelly – Environmental headlines of my childhood – bald eagle declines due to DDT and severe drought* in Ethiopia and the corresponding famine. The British pop stars that graced my bedroom walls also graced the stage at a benefit concert and collaborated on a Christmas song to raise awareness for Africa. In high
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by Sherrin Griffin, VP, Operations, Sidney SeniorCare – When we think about how communication has changed over the last few decades, it’s really quite incredible, and hard to remember the days back when fax machines seemed pretty high tech. I remember emailing for the very first time in the mid 1990s, from a computer the
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by Gillian Crowley – Nicola Furlong zooms in for our interview on her electric bike, fresh from a hockey game with the Sidney Retreads, an old-timers’ hockey team where she was the only female player for many years. This energetic artist, writer, radio host, gardener, hockey player and communications consultant is one of those people
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story by Janice Henshaw | photos by Omid Pakbin – As our climate and economies change and our natural resources diminish, it seems only sensible to change our building styles so that we are more responsive and efficient in terms of using less harmful material and increasing the longevity of what we do use. In
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by Wendy White, Trudi Jones Interiors – Here on our Pacific West Coast, hints of spring are already surfacing – white snowdrops, mini daffodils, crocuses and fresh buds on trees seem to have appeared overnight. Although we are still a little ways off from spring, this brings about a desire to cast off the feeling
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