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Last month, Taryn Koide, 15, spent four days helping pull a heavy handcart over about 15 kilometres of rough logging roads near Lake Cowichan. Bed was a sleeping bag on the ground; sunrise was the alarm clock. Breakfast was what she helped cook.

There are so many opportunities to view art that I hardly know which way to turn. It wasn鈥檛 always this way.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Sept. 6, 1941. Like everyone else who writes on controversial matters, I聽have received many anonymous letters. Some of these I burn, but not all.

Volunteers are needed to help pick fruit to help the community as the LifeCycles Fruit Tree Project celebrates 20聽years of rescuing backyard bounty.

Selected figures from the District of Saanich annual report. All figures for 2016 unless noted.

When the producers of Hallmark Channel鈥檚 TV series Chesapeake Shores were looking for seaside locations last year, they chose the Oceanside area between Nanaimo and Qualicum Beach to stand in for the show鈥檚 U.S. locales.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Aug. 22, 1941. I like getting ready for visitors.

It didn鈥檛 matter if you couldn鈥檛 tell the difference between a fly ball and grand slam at Royal Athletic Park on a sunny Thursday afternoon, when the Victoria HarbourCats took on the Kelowna Falcons.

I thought I would have an unremarkable office day, returning phone calls, reading and replying to emails, drafting documents and generally moving some files along. All that ended about 9:30 a.m.

The sa国际传媒 SPCA鈥檚 ninth annual Wildlife-In-Focus photography contest is open, with a goal is to capture the best of British Columbia鈥檚 wildlife through the lens.