by Paula Kully – What do agriculture, landscaping and trucking having in common? Here on Vancouver Island, it’s the use of technology and innovation to start-up or grow business. Greater Victoria is rapidly gaining notoriety as a hotbed for high tech innovation and manufacturing. The Victoria Innovation, Advanced Technology and Entrepreneurship Council (VIATEC) estimates 867 […]
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by Rebekah Hunter – He gently folds the jacket bearing memories from another time and another place: Wartime, some 70 years ago. With great patience he explains to me the significance of the two gold caterpillar brooches pinned to the lapel. They represent the two times he was shot down as an Air Force pilot
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by Dale Henley, Co-Chair, Saanich Peninsula Primary Health Care Society – “We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems” ~ Lee Iacoca, former CEO, Chrysler Corporation. How do you get health care services? Do you go to a walk-in clinic, or do you go to the Saanich Peninsula Hospital Emergency Room
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story by Janice Henshaw / photos by Jacob McNeil PlatinumHD – I have driven on Cordova Bay Road many times and often wished that I would be invited inside one of the road’s unique beachfront homes. Today is the day: I am reviewing a modern West Coast contemporary home, and I can’t wait to get
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by Doreen Marion Gee – Every fall, Sidney slips out of its sleepy summertime cocoon and transforms into a spectacular butterfly. It becomes a vibrant community sizzling with creative colour. Artists of all stripes spread their wings and dazzle us with their extraordinary talents and skills. The Sidney Fine Art Show puts us on the
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by Jim Townley, President of Fresh Cup Roastery Café – In a recent discussion with my significant other, I was asked the pointed question: “Why do you want to be an entrepreneur so bad?” One of my personal strengths, as an entrepreneur, is that I can think quickly on my feet, but in this case
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I believe everything happens for a reason and that life is unmistakably connected all the time. Last year at the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, we had a quick introduction and your few words left me wanting more. Here we are today, chatting once again. You are a local success story. Not only a devoted
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Like virtue, photography is its own reward, triggering memories of life’s greatest moments and relationships. In our Fourth Annual Photography Contest, Seaside wishes to further reward some of these amazing artists, with some good old-fashioned ink in our local magazine. With so many submissions, this task wasn’t easy. You’ll find our choices in the
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story by Janice Henshaw, photography by Vince Klassen – Imagine leaving the city lights behind on a chilly Friday night in winter as you head to your lakeside vacation home. Worried about it being chilly and dark when you arrive? Have no fear, just click on your personal home app and the heat will rise,
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by Nathalie Chambers – We are so lucky to live in the rainshadow of the Cascade and Olympic mountain ranges, a world-renowned marine and biological diversity hotspot. We are in the traditional territory of the Coast Salish First Nations, who lived on and stewarded these lands for 8,000 years since the beginning of time until
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