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This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Oct. 7, 1939. Never does a fire burn so brightly or give out more comfort than when a cold storm is lashing at the house and flooding the windows with rain.

People who normally don鈥檛 have much to smile about will be showing off their pearly whites soon, as Dentistry From the Heart returns for its seventh year on Saturday, Sept.聽24. The event offers free dental care for patients most in need.

Superheroes clad in brightly coloured costumes dropped in to a reception honouring one of their own 鈥� Linda Hasenfratz, who was dubbed the Woman of Steel. Hasenfratz, 50, is this year鈥檚 University of Victoria Peter B.

With fall鈥檚 arrival, Victorians start to see their homes invaded by those enormous, scary spiders, the ones many of us call 鈥渨olf spiders.鈥� But Claudia Copley, entomology collection manager at the Royal sa国际传媒

Most spiders in Victoria are nothing to fear. But even experienced arachnophiles are cautious about two species, the black widow and the false black widow.

Deborah and Tomas Dosil have lived in downtown Victoria for eight years, and they want their children to attend a downtown elementary school. There is only one: Christ Church Cathedral School, nestled in a heritage building on Vancouver Street.

The dark, clear sky is deep blue-black, the moon hangs high and lonely. Stars twinkle silently over four kids on a rink. In fields of snow, alone in all that vastness, they live in a painting by Peter Shostak.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Sept. 30, 1939. They are much the same in every city, these women who belong to the local council, picked from many affiliated societies.

Put on your best red-and-white Canadian outfit and join hundreds of thousands of Canadians at a Terry Fox Run on Sunday, Sept. 18, with the local event starting at Mile 0.