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Victoria writer Monique Gray Smith has won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize for her book My Heart Fills With Happiness.

BIRTHDAY TUESDAY: A Sun-Saturn link on your birthday means you need to be realistic about your aims and ambitions. You also need to be practical about how much your efforts will cost in terms of time, energy and money.

BIRTHDAY MONDAY: The most important thing over the coming 12 months is that you stay in control of what you are doing.

James Hill has been compared to Jimi Hendrix, and for good reason.

Week Ahead Stars for Sunday, April 30th BIRTHDAY SUNDAY: Don't just try to make a better life for yourself this year, try to make the lives of other people better too.

Construction could start by year’s end on the fourth new condominium building at Bayview Place as the region’s strong economy and hot real estate market continues to spur development.

Victoria’s downtown core, which has been much maligned over the years as a dead zone where retail went to die, is very much alive and thriving these days — and it owes a portion of its renaissance to the region’s soaring technology sector.

I’m looking in my mind back to April, last year.

Dear Debbie: I am not very good at setting up a room. I don’t like shopping, I have no colour sense and I don’t much care for what is trendy. I just finished college and I’m tired of my student digs.

What: The Caretaker Where: Roxy Theatre When: To May 7 Rating: 4 1/2 stars (out of five) A new production of The Caretaker is powerful, disturbing, shocking and often laugh-out-loud hilarious.