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Dale Roberts is one of four fibre artists in an exhibition at the Martin Batchelor Gallery. Each is worthy and interesting, but Roberts’ needle-felted portraits are outstanding.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Aug. 9, 1941. The British are the happiest people in Europe today. They have unity, a good conscience, hope for the future and confidence in their leaders.

The University of Victoria will return stained-glass panels designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to their original home in Buffalo, New York — which is now a historic landmark.

More than 100 families from Indigenous nations across B.C., and as far away as Alaska and California, will unite in Campbell River this summer for the biannual Tribal Canoe Journeys festival.

Former Crown prosecutor Scott Van Alstine has seen the highs and lows of the justice system

There is still room for riders of all abilities to join this year’s Victoria Grandmothers for Africa Cycle Tour in September. Riders will cycle 275 kilometres over three days from Campbell River to the legislature in Victoria.

As luck would have it, organizers of the annual summer celebration for residents and caregivers at Glengarry Hospital didn’t even need their Hawaiian theme to evoke that summertime sensation.

The Robert Bateman Centre is a bright display space on the upper level of the Steamship Terminal on the Inner Harbour.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on June 28, 1941. The first of July is upon us again, and a precious day it is, redolent of happy gatherings. It is not just a day of 24 hours, or a date on the calendar set in red.

NORWALK, Connecticut — Experts at a Connecticut aquarium are trying to figure out how crabs native to the Pacific Northwest ended up in the waters of Long Island Sound.