Stories

by Jo Barnes | photos by Amanda Cribdon Photography -  Bamboo. Home gardeners typically shy away from it, believing it to be an aggressive plant that will take over their garden in a heartbeat. But bamboo is very much misunderstood. Tucked away off West Saanich Road, Victoria Bamboo is a thriving nursery that has grown [...]

by Tina Kelly -  Reduce, reuse, recycle is a classic environmental mantra. This trio of R-words roll nicely off the tongue and as a slogan it's as old as I am. While the specific origin of reduce, reuse, recycle is debated, the slogan rose in popularity during the environmental movement of the 1970s and has

by Heidi Hackman & Colleen McNamee, District Career Coordinators, SD 63 | photo by Amanda Cribdon Photography -  Success can be measured in many different ways. When we started looking to see how we could improve our popular trade sampler programs, we knew we had to discuss "what success looks like." The Saanich School District

by Annilee Armstrong -  News, changes, updates, launches? Email noteworthyseaside@gmail.com.   COMUNNITY FUNDRAISER On Your Mark, Get Set, Go! The Parkland Track campaign is still running. Work on the new track has started but they are still in need of raising funds to resurface it. This track is widely used by the community, as well

by Janis Jean Photography -  When my daughter was little, I used to love taking her to Beacon Hill Children's Farm. I think it was more for me than for her – which explains why I was so thrilled for my Seaside assignment at the new Farm Experience at Country Bee Honey Farm. The cuteness

by Stephanie Staples | photos by Amanda Cribdon Photography -  I opened the email from a friend, unsuspectingly. "Would you be interested in posing for the Sidney Shoal Portrait Painters (SSPP) group? It takes place every Tuesday afternoon and you sit for approximately two hours. It's a great experience and I think your beautiful features

by Steve Sakiyama -  I've been walking a lot lately. It started as a way to relieve stress – caused by the intense pressures of writing humour I guess. Up until recently, my exercise has been limited to chasing ice cream trucks or making a break to be first in the dinner buffet line. It's

by Tabatha Golat -  I'm all shook up this month over the new Baz Luhrmann film Elvis starring the insanely talented Austin Bulter as the "King of Rock" Elvis Presley. After a long hiatus from filmmaking, director Baz Luhrmann released his lively musical biopic of the late great Elvis Aaron Presley, a long-awaited production that's

by Anne Miller | photo courtesy Shoreline Medical -  Remember school dances in the 70s? This story begins around 1977, on stage in Kamloops, when Gordon Henderson and fellow musicians assembled a rock-and-roll band they called Steamer, playing locally, then basing themselves in Toronto and performing across Canada. With Gordon as vocalist, song-writer and guitarist/pianist,