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Every bowl of soup at the Souper Bowls of Hope on Tuesday is special, for it not only nourishes the body, but also warms the heart. This lunchtime celebration brings people together for a bowl of soup.

For those of us among the ever-diminishing number of people who lived in Britain during the Second World War, Remembrance Day has a special significance. Most of us grew up in those grim and difficult years.

James Bond fever was in full swing at Strathcona Hotel’s Distrikt nightclub long before Daniel Craig inevitably said, “Bond, James Bond” during Thursday night’s Spectre preview at the Odeon.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Nov. 16, 1940.

Victoria man Ian Bos initially sent pictures of 200 Victoria parks to his father, who was battling cancer in Nova Scotia. When his dad was pronounced terminal, Bos flew himself. After his father died Jan.

Don’t let the sign, or signs, fool you. Good Used Cars is still a pre-owned car lot, although it’s fair to say for years it has been stretching the definition to encompass descriptors like curiosity, museum or portal-through-time.

If you happened to wander off the trails on the eastern side of the Saanich Peninsula’s largest urban forest on Thursday, you might have found yourself in a time warp.

Filming of sequences for a Hollywood movie scheduled for release in summer of 2017 has yielded an estimated economic impact of $1.5 million for coastal communities near Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.

In my imagination, Katharine Maltwood sits in a 16th-century English oak chair, looking out over Victoria from her home at Royal Oak. It’s about 1945, yet the house named the Thatch is, to all appearances, an English country manor.

Almost 100 homeless people living rough on city streets will sleep warmer this winter, thanks to a donation of sleeping bags by a social-action group.