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Development at Bayview Place on Songhees is about to start inching closer to the water, as the man behind the 20-acre site hopes to break ground on the next condominium tower early in 2018.

View Royal voters head to the polls Nov. 18 in a byelection to replace Heidi Rast as councillor. Rast, who topped the polls in 2011 and 2014, moved to Prince Edward Island to take a job with a biopharmaceutical company.

A Victoria storyteller鈥檚 enthusiasm over the prospect of spinning yarns for local seniors was living proof that Volunteer Victoria and Camosun College were on the right track last Wednesday.

Karen McLaughlin鈥檚 pencil drawings are complex and detailed, inspired by nature, but apparently abstract in their patterning. The obsessive nature of her activity drew me in and I wanted to know more.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Dec. 6, 1941. Now that the first week of December is all but gone and the British parcels are on their way, it is time to think about Christmas here at home.

Admire quilts, some more than 100 years old, as well as聽30 vintage outfits, at sa国际传媒鈥檚 History in Quilts and Fashion, Tuesday at the Salvation Army Citadel.

Ever-higher temperatures are melting the ice sheets faster than projected. The sea level is rising. International efforts to reduce greenhouse gases are taking longer than expected.

If anyone doubted Kathleen Burton鈥檚 devotion to preserving Swan Lake Christmas Hill Sanctuary, a visit to Saanich鈥檚 urban refuge last Sunday would have set them straight.

Women will, for the first time, walk alongside men and dogs at the Man and His Dog Fashion Show, a fundraiser for the Victoria Humane Society, Thursday at the Atrium.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Nov. 29, 1941. Hope dies hard on a bright autumn afternoon when you are only 12 years old. Mary Bell Andrews watched the door of the schoolroom with her heart beating in her throat.