Christmas Fund

Dave Obee: Please give to the Christmas Fund to help people in need

Dave Obee / Times Colonist editor and publisher

We’re back, raising money for people in need during the Christmas season, just as we have done ...

He once turned to Mustard Seed, now he helps others

Dave Obee: Why I’m giving to the Christmas Fund — it’s personal

Tuba Christmas raises more than $4,300 for Times Colonist Christmas Fund

Hundreds fill Market Square for Tuba Christmas

Jack Knox: A Christmas Fund donation from a prison inmate cheers the soul

Through the roof: He’s donated $5,000 a year for 13 years to the Christmas Fund

Matched donations fuel donor’s gifts to Christmas Fund

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She used to rely on donated toys for gifts, now she gives them out

‘Christmas is just too hard’ for mother with disability

Jack Knox: How Victoria’s Christmas charities work together

A Christmas story: Need is a thing that hits someone else — until it’s you

Memories of how fund helped a new arrival to Victoria in 1950s

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Local

Son a ‘hero’ for safely landing plane without propeller

Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist

The father of a 26-year-old pilot who safely landed a small plane in a blueberry patch in Saanich after the engine quit and the propeller fell off calls his son a hero. “He did every single thing. . .

Food & Drink

Eric Akis: Ginger snap cookies, two ways

Eric Akis / Times Colonist

A Times Colonist reader, Don, asked if I had a good recipe for thin ginger snaps — a very crispy cookie that does actually snap when you break it. I knew I would find one or more in my vast . . .

Local

Coronavirus quarantine means Peppa Pig and new perspectives for toddler and dad

Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist

Fifteen-month-old Chloe Fabic is spending her days watching the animated series Peppa Pig in a Trenton motel until Friday, when those under a coronavirus quarantine are released — about one-third . . .

Local

Say hello to Island Aurora and Island Discovery, new hybrid ferries

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

The first bottle of See Ya Later bubbly smashed against the hull of the Island Discovery to christen B.C. Ferries’ brand-new hybrid-electric vessel. A second bottle was then let loose to explode . . .

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Explore: Victoria Boat and Fishing Show, pruning lessons, a nature hike and more

Pedro Arrais / Times Colonist

Pearkes Arena will be jammed with new boats, products and displays for the Victoria Boat and Fishing Show, Friday to Sunday. Billed as the largest boat, fishing and outdoor consumer trade show on. . .

Op-Ed

Comment: Whose land? Whose laws? B.C. needs to change its name

Nicholas XEMŦOLTW̱ Claxton,  John Price / Times Colonist

In his amazing 2016 exhibit “Unceded Territories,” Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun called for the renaming of British Columbia (#RenameBC). Almost all of the province is unceded, he said at the time: “. . .

Local

Wanted: sightings of bats (dead or alive)

Pedro Arrais / Times Colonist

The Habitat Acquisition Trust is asking for many eyes on the ground to report dead bats or any sightings of winter bat activity as the deadly white-nose syndrome arrives on the West Coast. The . . .

Local

Jack Knox: How a Victoria cop kept the Great One safe 10 years ago

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

The opening ceremony of the Vancouver Olympics was 10 years ago today, which means it has been exactly that long since Tony Parks stopped Wayne Gretzky from falling out of a pickup truck. VicPD’s. . .

Sports

Mayors issue challenge to see who fares best in TC10K

Cleve Dheensaw / Times Colonist

A mayors’ challenge will highlight the 31st Times Colonist 10K on April 26. “A number of us [Greater Victoria mayors] run the race, so we thought it would be fun to officially make it a challenge. . .

Local

Man missing for eight years, family finds him in Victoria

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

For eight gut-wrenching years, Dan Thanh Vo’s family thought he was dead. Then, in November, came the stunning news: Dan, living with severe mental illness, had been found on the streets in . . .

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