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They came wearing white kilts, top hats, Nehru jackets, Venetian masks, low-cut minidresses and wedding gowns, ready to party with style at a posh pop-up picnic.

Abkhazi Garden is an extraordinary combination of plants and landscape at the border of Oak Bay and Fairfield.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on July 15, 1939. I visited a beautiful garden one day this week, and saw beauty face to face. Everything in the garden was tidy, selected, disciplined. Not a loose leaf, not a spent blossom.

A renovation at Scouts Canada’s Camp Barnard signals a period of renewal and change for the venerable facility. Camp Barnard, just west of Sooke, is a 101-hectare camp used year-round by Scouts and a variety of youth and adult organizations.

Non-profit and charity organizations get a significant amount of their funding from grants, but how do they learn to write a good grant proposal? What do funders want? Are there secrets to a successful pitch? With these questions in mind, the Greater

An internship program to teach new farmers how to grow pure food has taken root at Haliburton Community Organic Farm, near Elk Lake.

A Grade 7 Victoria student has won an award at the 2016 Vancouver Island Regional Science Fair for coming up with what could be an effective disinfectant for a dangerous hospital superbug.

Last week, Help Fill A Dream’s Taking it to the Street road hockey tournament was a huge success, raising more than $21,000.

Former race track is part of a massive land swap

For the first time in his adult life, Andrew Belfitt can think about getting his driver’s licence, finishing high school and helping others.