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The 10th annual Power To Play Victoria, a corporate team-building adventure race with philanthropic goals, raised $237,000 last Sunday.

Earl Clark still flashed back to D-Day. 鈥淓very once in a while, you wake up in the night and, boom, you鈥檙e right there,鈥� the 97-year-old said, gripping the arms of his wheelchair.

From outposts in Venezuela and South Korea to Victoria, baseball has become a truly global game. It is 鈥� and rightfully so, according to many 鈥� retaking its place in the Olympic Games next year in Tokyo.

They have toasted high-tech visionaries, old-school industrial warriors and everything in between over the course of 16聽years, and last week, the University of Victoria feted the new head of the country鈥檚 Digital Technology Supercluster.

British Columbia is joining Washington state and Oregon for Orca Awareness Month, an initiative to educate, inform and protect the marine environment, in June.

The Canadian and American coast guards conducted a joint, two-day oil-spill drill last week to test the emergency response to an accident in the waters between sa国际传媒 and Washington state.

The Veselka Ukrainian Dancers of Victoria came home with honours in three competition categories at this year鈥檚 sa国际传媒 Ukrainian Cultural Festival, held this month in Mission.

This upcoming month is a big one for the Victoria Foundation, and we鈥檙e very excited about it. First, it marks the opening of our applications for Community Grants for 2019.

The M鈥檃kola Housing Society is working with all 10 First Nations in Greater Victoria to host the Change Makers鈥� Gathering, an event to launch National Indigenous Peoples Week, June 17 at the Bear Mountain Resort.

A Woman in Between: Searching for Dr. Victoria Chung By John Price with Ningping Yu The Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia and The Initiative for Student Research and Teaching in Chinese Canadian Studies, 172 pp., $30.