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In the often-quirky world of minor-league baseball, stability can be a rare commodity.

Brian McRae was a rare second-generation Major League Baseball player, following his father Hal McRae into the majors. But that didn’t just happen. Genes aren’t that determinative. If they were, surely there would have been more Gretzkys in the NHL.

The music of George Gershwin is being enlisted to raise money for aid projects in Africa on Saturday at Cordova Bay United Church.

Lost Airmen of the Empire: what a beautiful title for a memorial to the 10,000 pilots who trained at Pat Bay during the Second World War.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on June 21, 1941. During all the changing scenes of life since the last Great War, our complacency has received many shocks.

The future looks brighter for at-risk women and single mothers, aged 40 to 55 who face homelessness, as the Victoria Foundation funds a program to help prepare them for an eventual transition from supportive to independent housing.

Megaphone magazine, which helps marginalized people tell their stories, has hired a new vendor co-ordinator for Victoria, with help from a Victoria Foundation grant. The magazine is typically sold on the streets by homeless and low-income vendors.

Recently, at the Community Foundations of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ conference in Ottawa, I had the great honour of hosting an interview with Gov. Gen. David Johnston. During our discussion, he expressed his desire that sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ “be a nation of barn raisers.

You have the privilege of sharing the planet with the largest animal that ever lived on Earth. The great blue whale, which can be found in every ocean around the globe, is bigger than any dinosaur you’ve seen in a museum.

Following are the final results of voting in the 2017 British Columbia general election as compiled by The Canadian Press, from Elections sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ data.