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Gordy Dodd, owner of Dodd’s Furniture, will again host his annual Thanksgiving Dinner event on Monday at Our Place. This is the furniture store’s 18th Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless and less privileged.

It took more than 70 years, but Victoria resident George Wastle finally received his medal for his involvement in the liberation of France in the Second World War.

Royal visit 2016 in pictures

A new book entitled Fronts of Modernity is the fourth volume published by and about the University of Victoria’s libraries.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Oct. 21, 1939. There is a strange fascination in an old manuscript.

Pacifica Housing will hold an open house today for people interested in renting one of the 108 affordable units at its new Wilson’s Walk building. Wilson’s Walk will provide affordable housing for low-to moderate-income singles and families.

Celebrities, civic leaders and politicians took a shaving cream pie in the face on Wednesday to raise food-security awareness as the Mustard Seed Street Church kicked off national hunger awareness week with its annual Pie Off Challenge.

More than 100 solar photovoltaic panels have been mounted on a Pender Island school roof as part of a plan to put panels on every suitable public building on the island.

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.