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This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on July 22, 1939. If I wakened in the black middle of a soundless night in a hospital, I would know where I was.

Molly Lamb Bobak was a celebrated painter, the first woman to travel overseas as an official Canadian war artist, and a member of the Order of Canada. She was also mother and friend to Victoria author Anny Scoones.

Wendy Huntbatch dedicated most of the last 25 years of her life to caring for parrots that had been given up by their owners. That dedication gave birth to the World Parrot Refuge in Coombs, where as many as 800 parrots lived.

The Miracle Mile — Stories of the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games ; by Jason Beck; Caitlin Press Inc.; 288 pages; $29.95.

Growth of dispensaries in B.C. increased demand; where supplies come from unclear

Advocates say B.C. jobs, tourism at stake as pot sales go mainstream

It’s easy to feel like a kid in a candy store at some of Victoria’s marijuana dispensaries. And that’s exactly what worries provincial and regional health authorities.

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.