Islander

With Wings Like Clouds Hung From the Sky is the title of an installation of art created and selected by Montreal-based artist Karen Tam. For this exhibition, at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria through Sept.

Large sculptures, constructed from cans of food, are on display at Hillside mall this week to raise money for the Mustard Seed Food Bank.

In the often-quirky world of minor-league baseball, stability can be a rare commodity.

Brian McRae was a rare second-generation Major League Baseball player, following his father Hal McRae into the majors. But that didn’t just happen. Genes aren’t that determinative. If they were, surely there would have been more Gretzkys in the NHL.

The music of George Gershwin is being enlisted to raise money for aid projects in Africa on Saturday at Cordova Bay United Church.

Lost Airmen of the Empire: what a beautiful title for a memorial to the 10,000 pilots who trained at Pat Bay during the Second World War.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on June 21, 1941. During all the changing scenes of life since the last Great War, our complacency has received many shocks.

The future looks brighter for at-risk women and single mothers, aged 40 to 55 who face homelessness, as the Victoria Foundation funds a program to help prepare them for an eventual transition from supportive to independent housing.

Megaphone magazine, which helps marginalized people tell their stories, has hired a new vendor co-ordinator for Victoria, with help from a Victoria Foundation grant. The magazine is typically sold on the streets by homeless and low-income vendors.

Recently, at the Community Foundations of Canada conference in Ottawa, I had the great honour of hosting an interview with Gov. Gen. David Johnston. During our discussion, he expressed his desire that Canada “be a nation of barn raisers.