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– by Doreen Marion Gee – This is the third in a six-part series of profiles on some great local businesses that are working to keep us all in good health. Self-denial seems inherent in our culture where putting ourselves first is labelled ‘selfish.’ Women especially are programmed from birth that their primary role is

– by Huiyang Wang – In one of her paintings, May Ip-Lam portrayed a spectacular yet distinctive eagle through traditional and contemporary Chinese watercolours with rich dark mars-black and burnt-sienna strokes. Unlike other eagles in paintings, which either proudly fly in the sky with their powerful and wide-spread wings, or stingingly stare at you with

– by Tina Kelly – Tina Kelly is an Ocean Advocate at the Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre. Visit www.oceandiscovery.ca for more information. Instead of resolving to lose pounds this New Year, Wendy Szaniszlo, a Research Assistant at the Vancouver Aquarium (VanAqua), suggests you resolve to “lose the loop.” Szaniszlo’s research focuses on marine mammal entanglements

After interviewing Beverley Elder, Executive Director for the Sidney Lions Food Bank (Can We Talk pg. 23), I realized Seaside is a little late on publishing this story. I guess better late than never though. We all know that local food banks exist but do we really understand the significance of them in our communities?

Seaside Magazine welcomes your feedback! Send letters to the editor via deborah@seasidemagazine.ca or post your comments on our Facebook wall! Letters may be edited for space and content. Thank you so much for including our photo in the November issue ! Rebecca is thrilled and we have had a lot of great feedback. – Shawn Steele

– by Suzanne Morphet – Can culture pave the road to prosperity? The people of Belgium think so and are investing 68 million Euros – that’s almost $100 million – to help their city of Mons rise to the challenge of being Cultural Capital of Europe for 2015. Canadians better know Mons as the place

– by Doreen Marion Gee – This is the second in a six-part series of profiles on some great local businesses that are working to keep us all in good health. A year and a half ago I dislocated my shoulder, an extremely painful ordeal requiring a trip to emergency. After my shoulder was reset,

– by Michelle Bourgeois, RT, Trainer, Sports Nutritionist – Ahhhh … wintertime! That time of year when many folks mimic the great grizzly and go into hibernation mode. Spending their spare time curled up in front of a warm fire with a book and a hot beverage just sounds so heavenly compared to the alternative of

– by Trysh Ashby-Rolls – My mother was born on December 13, 1914, in a boarding-house somewhere behind Paddington Station, London, where she worked as the housekeeper. Her father, a naval commander at the Battle of Jutland, took his tiny daughter home to his family in Yorkshire, explaining her as another of his “little scrapes.”