Islander

During the past six years, Arthur Vickers has created a suite of two chairs and a box to be used in convocation ceremonies at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo. This project was commissioned by Coast Capital Savings.

You didn’t have to wait until showtime to feel that Marvel magic on Thursday night at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on July 20, 1940. To our forefathers, it meant freedom, a place to work, to own land and be independent, where one man was as good as another.

The Spencer Mansion, now home to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, was once inhabited by some of Victoria’s most notable families and served for a short time as British Columbia’s Government House.

Ken Mariash doesn’t mince his words as he recalls his impression of golfers when, “like any Western Canadian kid,” he played hockey and baseball before becoming a championship wrestler in college.

A creative fundraiser that has teams creating structures out of cans of food, has resulted in a donation of more than $86,000 to the Mustard Seed.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on June 29, 1940.

When someone comes back from a wonderful time away, it’s a treat to listen to their travel tales. Michael Morris has just returned from seven weeks in Venice, and when we sat down in the garden of his Brentwood Bay home, he told me all about it.

The summer festival community lost a valuable member when organizers of the annual VIC Fest announced its demise in February.

A $6-million bequest from a Courtenay woman took members of the Comox Valley Community Foundation by surprise. “It was one of those jaw-dropping, heart-stopping moments,” said Norman Carruthers, the foundation’s president, on Friday.