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Giving farmers the tools and infrastructure to support local and sustainable food production is the goal of the future Salt Spring Island Farm Centre for Food Security, a project funded by the Victoria Foundation and Van City Credit Union.

How connected do you feel to your community? To your neighbours, friends and family? What is your sense of belonging? On Oct.

Anybody here remember Minimalism? There was the long project of Modernism: from Impressionism to Expressionism, through Abstract Expressionism to Colour Field and Hard Edge.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Oct. 14, 1939. It is a pity that the fine day should ever do any harm.

Victoria author Anny Scoones has a talent for writing candidly and colourfully about simple things, and many of her tales are of her time living on a heritage farm with countless beloved pets and animals.

Last year’s WHL regular-season champs look to overcome painful playoff defeat with hard work and drive

‘Not long before she arrived on the Skeena, people of Kitwancool had brandished axes to drive off a party of surveyors. It hardly seems the place for a 56-year-old dumpling with a paint box.” From Laurie Carter, Emily Carr’s B.C.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Oct. 7, 1939. Never does a fire burn so brightly or give out more comfort than when a cold storm is lashing at the house and flooding the windows with rain.

People who normally don’t have much to smile about will be showing off their pearly whites soon, as Dentistry From the Heart returns for its seventh year on Saturday, Sept. 24. The event offers free dental care for patients most in need.

Superheroes clad in brightly coloured costumes dropped in to a reception honouring one of their own — Linda Hasenfratz, who was dubbed the Woman of Steel. Hasenfratz, 50, is this year’s University of Victoria Peter B.