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by Travis Koivula, Island Savings – Just like the birds and the bees, talking with your kids about money can be uncomfortable. But, like all of the most important lessons, starting these conversations early and revisiting them often is the best way for your kids to build a lifelong talent for responsible financial management. Here […]

by Sharon Hope – It was the BC Electric Railway that first advertised Deep Bay, later known as Deep Cove, as a destination for day trippers and vacationers. The company initially built the Chalet as a place for public refreshment and as a hotel. As Deep Cove’s popularity grew, six cottages were constructed immediately south

by Lara Gladych – Whether we’d like to admit it or not, we’ve probably all found ourselves silently judging the appearance of a young person at some point in our lives. We may have questioned their choice of clothing, finding their outfit to be too revealing, too unkept or too mismatched. Perhaps we didn’t mean

The Saanich Peninsula Stroke Recovery Association is a non-profit organization comprised of professionals and volunteers who deal with stroke patients who have recovered enough to leave hospital and continue to work towards their recovery. Meetings are held in the Seventh Day Adventist Church at 9300 Willindon Road in Sidney every Monday at 10:30 a.m (except

by Dana Tishenko, Peninsula Naturopathic Clinic – The World Health Organization estimates that there are 422 million adults living with diabetes worldwide, a figure which has nearly doubled since 1980. It should be no surprise that this chronic disease has also had a toll on our children. The American Diabetes Association states that 23,525 children

by Lara Gladych – BUSINESS Where to Travel … Far & Away is the newest place in Sidney to make your travel plans. Having operated Cheap Tickets Canada in Victoria for the past 20 years, Normand Schafer and his team are now here locally to book your traditional vacations and cruises, as well as offering

by Jo Barnes – A treasure at a yard sale, a work of art in the attic – nothing is more exciting than finding those hidden gems … and it’s more amazing if it happens twice. Such is the case in Sidney, where an extremely popular family and tourist attraction from years gone by reopened

by Emma O’Neill – Talking with Bayside Middle School students about writing and the media, Associate Publisher Deborah Rogers challenged them to write articles about what inspires them, with the direction that any pieces that met the criteria would be considered for publication in our August Kids issue. Here, from the point of view of

In Sidney beside Iroquois Park and just off Fifth Street is a very active lawn bowling club; visitors are amazed when they see this hidden gem. The club boasts a membership that averages about 160 area residents. Over 18 years ago, some folks with a vision and with the cooperation of the town, reclaimed what

by Tyler Laing – For years I have been hearing from people about their experiences biking the Vancouver Island Circle Rout: friends cycling between wineries on the Peninsula, stopping in at farms and local grocery stores for fresh food; colleagues commuting through forests and over wooden bridges along the Galloping Goose. Cyclists in the CRD