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For Chris Currie, this year’s golf-a-thon to raise money for ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, hits very close to home. Currie’s father, Leonard, died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis last June at 72.

While many events of the First World War are celebrated, others are recalled with discomfort.

Orange Is the New Black isn’t just a hot Netflix series, as Fort Tectoria newcomers discovered during Geek: Into the Pixel.

A divided Nanaimo council is in the midst of a will-they-or-won’t-they decision on whether to give a developer from China extra time to build a $50-million downtown hotel. A negative decision could kill the already delayed project.

In the realm of King Kong-sized boxed sets, it isn’t the biggest in history — that honour belongs to behemoths such as the 142-disc collection feting classical pianist Arthur Rubinstein.

Last month’s World Partnership Walk attracted about 1,500 participants and supporters, raising more than $120,000 for programs supported by the Aga Khan Foundation Canada.

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.