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BIRTHDAY THURSDAY: The message of your birthday chart is that you will need to go it alone more over the coming 12 months.

A guitar made from pieces of Wayne Gretzky’s hockey stick, Pierre Trudeau’s canoe paddle, and one of Maurice Richard’s Stanley Cup rings is on Vancouver Island this week for a series of performances at middle schools.

Dear Helen: I have a forsythia that has grown tall and rangy, with the flowers mainly on the upper portion of the plant. Is there a way of reshaping the shrub into a more compact and pleasing shape? H.P.

Dear Tony: At our first council meeting since the AGM, we spent two hours arguing about how strata councils make decisions at council meetings.

BIRTHDAY WEDNESDAY: By all means get serious about your ambitions over the coming 12 months but make sure you have plenty of time for socializing and travelling too.

BIRTHDAY TUESDAY: Good things will come your way by the bucket load over the next 12 months.

BIRTHDAY MONDAY: Your first task on your birthday must be to sit yourself down some place quiet and make a list of your priorities. After you have done that you can put together a plan of action.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on April 26, 1941. Men and women born in the Greek tradition, and heirs to the treasure of that ancient people, are not likely to tremble before the oppressor.

Week Ahead Stars for Sunday, April 23rd BIRTHDAY SUNDAY: It may look to the outside world as if you are always so calm and so cool but inside you are a raging inferno of conflicting emotions.

REVIEW Alice Munro Stories Where: Belfry Theatre When: To May 14 Rating: four stars (out of five) It took a few minutes — maybe 10 — for Alice Munro Stories to grab me. But once you’re hooked, well … you’re in hook, line and book-mark.