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If going back to school is as stressful or intimidating as it’s sometimes made out to be, you couldn’t tell during Campus Kick Off 2017 at the University of Victoria.

For 15 years, the Avenue Gallery has been in the midst of Oak Bay Village, attracting passersby with striking art works by Blu Smith and Ron Parker in its show window.

After weathering countless ocean storms, a massive fire and even a few controversies through the decades, Ogden Point and its breakwater will be celebrated with a party on Sept. 23 — 100 years after the breakwater was completed.

Saanich voters go to the polls on Saturday, Sept. 23, to elect a new member of council. Below, the 10 candidates tell readers why they believe they are the best choice to fill that seat.

HONOLULU — A Hawaii Supreme Court ruling has halted the commercial scooping of reef fish for aquariums until the state reviews the trade’s environmental impact.

Nineteen-year-old Naim Saban balances on a log in East Sooke Park as he learns the story behind the ancient petroglyph carved onto a rock.

A towering Garry oak tree next door to a proposed 14-unit condo development on a single-family lot is at the root of a mighty big controversy in Oak Bay.

If you had looked up at the Saanich sky while savouring the intoxicating aroma of lamb being roasted on a spit late Friday morning, you might have felt as if you were just an olive’s throw from the Aegean Sea.

Anne Meggitt, whose paintings are on show at Martin Batchelor Gallery, was born in 1930.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Aug. 30, 1941.