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Trafalgar/Pro Patria Branch No. 292 of the Royal Canadian Legion has just announced the results of their poppy campaign from last year. The branch, which covers Victoria, Oak Bay and Saanich, collected $90,000 in donations from their 2014 campaign.

Olympic gold medalist Adam Kreek would be the first admit he’s no Tiger Woods, but his limitations on the links didn’t keep him away from the Victoria Golf Club on Thursday.

Mark Tobey/Teng Baiye Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, ed., Frye Art Museum, Seattle, 2014, 80 pp. Mark Tobey (1890-1976) was an artist of Seattle, a West Coast mystic in 20th-century art. And he played a significant role in Victoria’s art life.

Aquatic life suffering as water levels fall below amounts needed to sustain itg

As most of us who live here are blissfully aware, you don’t have to go far to find a picturesque sandy beach for summertime fun or relaxation.

There is a community of artists in Victoria who aren’t seen in commercial galleries, are not employed by the University of Victoria and yet have been creative workers of considerable skill in our city for many years.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on Aug. 17, 1940. I will lose my faith if we do not win this war. Three times this week I have heard this, and I feel I must deal with it.

Raise funds to benefit the B.C. Lions Society’s Easter Seals Camping Program while discovering your inner warrior in the first Woman2Warrior event in Victoria, which takes place next Sunday.

Cpl. Kelly Risling thinks the least he can do for someone who dies in anonymity and stays without a name year in, year out, is try to solve the mystery of who they are.

Buffed and gleaming vehicles were lined up in tidy rows at the annual Vancouver Island Motor Gathering held last weekend at the Viscount Aero Centre in Sidney, but one seemed to have a mind of its own.