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Legends is Victoria’s comic-book shop for true believers. The art show I visited this week is in a tiny back room there. The walls have been covered with brown paper, and a bevy of original watercolours is posted with push pins.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Sept. 16, 1939. A woman who had two sons in the last war wrote these words in a letter: “Surely some great good will come out of so much suffering.

Parks sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ is inviting everyone to join in a giant shoreline cleanup party at Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on Saturday.

Hayley Sirimalalak had it made in the shade at Ogden Point last Thursday — a stroke of luck considering it was the hottest day of the summer.

Clement Kwan is a talented painter. His work has been a regular feature of the Sidney Fine Arts Show and the Sooke show.

He remembers the baseball. Chief John Smith thinks back to life in the tiny village of Kalagwees on Turnour Island and, for some reason, the baseball games come to mind first. Everyone played, he says. No matter their age, no matter their abilities.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Sept. 9, 1939.

The Kiwanis Kids Summer Music Camp is hoping to instil the love of music in 20 children who might never have had an opportunity to attend a music camp, Aug. 22 to 26. The camp, for children eight to 12 years old, would usually cost $220 to attend.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Sept. 2, 1939.