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Dear Eric: What can I use instead of soy sauce? Many recipes I want to use call for this ingredient and I can't ingest soy proteins.

Omens In The Year Of The Ox By Steven Price Brick Books, 103 pp., $19 Omens in the Year of the Ox is award-winning Victoria poet Steven Price's highly engaging, and often quite dark, second book of poetry.

IN CONCERT What: Victoria Philharmonic Choir: Bach, Mass in B Minor, conducted by Peter Butterfield When/where: Saturday, 8 p.m., First Metropolitan United Church (932 Balmoral Rd.

Let There Be Light!, a month long art exhibition and auction, is underway in Duncan. The event is being held to support the new Hub at Cowichan Station community centre at 2375 Koksilah Rd.

Young conservationist's entry is among eight finalists in global video contest

IN CONCERT The Victoria Philharmonic Choir: J.S. Bach's Mass in b Minor When: Saturday, 8 p.m. Where: First Metropolitan Church Tickets: $30 regular, $15 students, free for children under 12.

Like athletes who stop training, children who stop reading for the summer can take a few steps backward in their learning journey. Elementary school teachers call it the "summer slide" or "summer reading loss." It's been studied extensively.

Dear Eric: My "old-country" farmer's-wife mother-in-law advised me always to add a teaspoonful of baking soda to pulses when boiling. She said it softens the skin. Another idea was taught to us at dietitian's school in Berlin.

Mr. Churchill's Profession By Peter Clarke Bloomsbury, 352 pp., $34.50 Winston S. Churchill spent a couple of days in Victoria in September 1929, during a tour of Canada and the United States.

Vogue fashion photographer captures Elizabeth in different eras