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Our Community: Service offers cycling with a smile

Our Community: Service offers cycling with a smile

After two years of preparation and fundraising, Cycling Without Age finally聽hits the road in Sidney on聽Monday. Volunteers with the non-profit agency will offer free, hour-long rides to less-able residents of the community in a trishaw.
Vital People: On the hunt for young volunteers

Vital People: On the hunt for young volunteers

National Volunteer Week kicks off April 7 as a wonderful opportunity to celebrate just how much volunteers contribute to our community each and every day, all out of the kindness of their hearts.
Vital People: Program trains newly arrived parents, educators in literacy

Vital People: Program trains newly arrived parents, educators in literacy

A provincewide training program now offered in Victoria provides community educators and settlement organizations the tools to enhance literacy for new and existing members of the community.

Vital People: Arts retreat aims to aid transgender youth

Transgender youth who want to be recognized as artists found a safe and accepting community at Camp Trans Tipping Point, an annual arts retreat hosted by the Fairfield Gonzales Community Association.
Expedition breaks new ground in the lives of Pacific salmon

Expedition breaks new ground in the lives of Pacific salmon

Fisheries scientists have estimated for the first time that 54.5 million Pacific salmon are living in the Gulf of Alaska 鈥 providing a valuable new tool to predict how many fish will be returning to sa国际传媒 streams to spawn this fall.
Book excerpt: A Year on the Wild Side

Book excerpt: A Year on the Wild Side

Salt Spring Island naturalist, artist and author Briony Penn has spent decades studying the flora and fauna of the West Coast.
Our Community: Rain Walk raises $40K for cancer patients

Our Community: Rain Walk raises $40K for cancer patients

InspireHealth鈥檚 third annual Rain Walk in Victoria this month raised more than $40,000 to support local cancer patients and their loved ones.
Photo gallery: 30 years later, Exxon Valdez spill leaves lasting scars

Photo gallery: 30 years later, Exxon Valdez spill leaves lasting scars

ANCHORAGE, Alaska 鈥 It was just after midnight on March 24, 1989, when an Exxon Shipping Co. tanker ran aground outside the town of Valdez, Alaska, spewing millions of litres of thick, toxic crude oil into the pristine Prince William Sound.
Langford to Lake Cowichan: A three-day inn-to-inn hike you鈥檒l never forget

Langford to Lake Cowichan: A three-day inn-to-inn hike you鈥檒l never forget

Itinerary and tips for an 85-kilometre trek along the Sooke Hills Wilderness Trail and the Cowichan Valley Trail
Writers challenged to reflect lives of Indigenous people on the street

Writers challenged to reflect lives of Indigenous people on the street

The Oasis Society, a non-profit organization for urban Indigenous people, wants to help Victorians to 鈥淪ee With New Eyes and Hear With New Ears鈥 when they look at people on the streets.