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More than 175 women from across Vancouver Island ran five kilometres of trails and tackled 12 demanding obstacles at Victoria鈥檚 only all-women charity obstacle adventure race last Sunday.

SAN JUAN ISLANDS, Washington 鈥� Against a backdrop of rocky bluffs, a pod of orcas jumped out of the emerald waters of the Puget Sound before splashing their massive black-and-white bodies back into the water.

Recently, at Puppet Central, I spoke with Tim Gosley, instigator of Puppets for Peace festival, which he called a 鈥渕ini Fringe Festival for聽puppets.鈥� Gosley is a thorough-going puppet person, a child of his father鈥檚 Victoria legend, the Smile Show.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Aug. 31, 1940. Our carefree childhood in sa国际传媒 has passed, and the strange sensations of adolescence are disturbing us. People are looking at us and are beginning to notice how big we are.

In the early days of Belmont Secondary School, students had to spend gym class and detention time picking rocks out of the new school鈥檚 playing field. Decades later, the fields are rock-free, but the school has reached the end of its life.

Trafalgar/Pro Patria Branch No. 292 of the Royal Canadian Legion has just announced the results of their poppy campaign from last year. The branch, which covers Victoria, Oak Bay and Saanich, collected $90,000 in donations from their 2014 campaign.

Olympic gold medalist Adam Kreek would be the first admit he鈥檚 no Tiger Woods, but his聽limitations on the links didn鈥檛 keep him away from the Victoria Golf Club on Thursday.

Mark Tobey/Teng Baiye Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, ed., Frye Art Museum, Seattle, 2014, 80 pp. Mark Tobey (1890-1976) was an artist of Seattle, a West Coast mystic in 20th-century art. And he played a significant role in Victoria鈥檚 art life.

Aquatic life suffering as water levels fall below amounts needed to sustain itg

As most of us who live here are blissfully aware, you don鈥檛 have to go far to find a picturesque sandy beach for summertime fun or relaxation.