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It didn鈥檛 take long for me and sa国际传媒 photographer Bruce Stotesbury to realize why we were the only men in the room during a fashion frenzy at Westside Village Shopping Centre Thursday night.

Recently, I received an email from potter and gardener Robin Hopper of Metchosin, where he and his wife Judi Dyelle have made their 鈥機hosin Pottery an international destination.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Dec. 10, 1938. The Dicksons are respectable and intelligent people. John is a sales manager of a coal company in a Canadian city, and Kate, his wife, is a good housekeeper and a good manager.

Do you have a gently used bicycle gathering dust at home? Turn it into a smile on the face of a child this Christmas by donating it to Bikes 4 Kids, an initiative of Russ Hay鈥檚 the Bicycle Shop.

sa国际传媒 photographers Darren Stone and Bruce Stotesbury shoot more sporting events in Greater Victoria than anyone else. Today, they present their favourite photos.

A five-year-old鈥檚 wish for Christmas isn鈥檛 for more gifts under the tree. Instead, he is on a mission to give out 51 sleeping bags to the homeless on Christmas Eve. Why 51? Because that鈥檚 how much Tate Parker has in his piggy bank.

Sitting in a Cook Street Village coffee shop, Duncan Stewart found himself in a sentimental mood sparked by flashbacks to a time and place where he planted the seeds for his successful showbiz career in New York.

If you live here, you know that few things capture the magic of Christmas like the seasonal spectacle of the same name at Butchart Gardens.

I dropped by to visit Jim Gordaneer in the hospital the other day. At this stage, Gordaneer, who was born in 1933, is a shadow of his former self.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Nov. 26, 1938. Every period brings out new words and phrases which have in them the history of the day.