As a longtime golfer, I can remember a number of years when Cedar Hill Golf Course was the hardest course to get on in town. If memory serves correctly, at one time it had the most rounds played in Canada.
Surely, during these times, the course contributed large surplus sums to the municipal coffers. We shouldn't be so quick to vilify the club now due to a minor and hopefully temporary budgetary shortfall.
Jeff Miller
Victoria
Ryder Hesjedal of Victoria became the first Canadian to win a Grand Tour cycling event with a tension-laden finish Sunday in the Giro d'Italia that captured even the attention of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and cycling legend Lance Armstrong.
Bolstered by an all-star assembly of talent — including American Idol alum Ruben Studdard, singers Josh Groban and Sarah McLachlan, boxing icon Muhammad Ali, and comic Sinbad, among others — the grand finale of David Foster’s Miracle Weekend was a capital-E event.