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For Ann Nightingale, Central Saanich resident and committed birder and naturalist, the human animals who, like birds, are as important as the birds themselves.

David Malysheff shudders as he recalls the day he found himself surrounded by grumpy grizzly bears on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula while shooting footage for Gary Cooper’s Fishing Diary.

Will you be my (furry) Valentine? Have a great day at the second Valentine’s Dog Party to raise awareness and funds for the Victoria Pet Food Bank, next Sunday, Feb. 14.

Victorians love watercolours. We are fascinated by local history. And we want to know what is being preserved for us in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s collection.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Feb. 11, 1939. In Douglas Reed’s book Insanity Fair, he describes the launching at Kiel of a German ship, the Deutschland, at which a strange incident occurred.

He has experienced illness, abandonment, loneliness and fear. He has struggled with divorce, single parenting and addiction. He has sought meaning and purpose in his life and found it among Victoria’s poorest and most vulnerable.

The United Way of Greater Victoria wants to paint the town red in February — and invites everyone to be part of the fun.

Elementary school children in need of extra support in literacy and numeracy will get mentoring specific to building those skills, thanks to a new program offered by the Greater Victoria branch of the Boys and Girls Club and funded by the Victoria Fo

If you were to focus on the local headlines recently, you might get the impression that 2016 was going to be the year of the negative storyline.