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Bear sightings Monday in the area of Kerryview Drive, near Prospect Lake, serve as a reminder that people in outlying areas should always secure their garbage containers, says Saanich police Sgt. Steve Eassie. Numerous containers were overturned.

Update The family of Rod Anderson stepped forward today, thankful that a carved memorial bearing his name had been found. Anderson died unexpectedly on July 18, 2002, while skippering a 68-foot boat to Alaska for some American clients.

It’s a familiar agony for Anita Johnstone, the North Saanich sister of a woman murdered in Terrace by a neighbour in a stabbing frenzy on Dec. 17, 1998.

The Victoria woman who pleaded guilty to abducting her 20-month-old daughter nearly two decades ago will not go to jail.

When Pamela Anderson arrived at McCall’s funeral home on Tuesday afternoon, it wasn’t as a celebrity, but as a loving great-niece.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 University of Victoria Astronomy Open House, Wednesdays to April 24, 8 to 10 p.m. Bob Wright Centre; astrowww.phys.uvic.ca Tanto Sensations by the Emily Carr String Quartet and Dr. Jonathan Goldman, 7:30 p.m.

An early-evening apartment fire burned about 40 Nanaimo residents out of their homes on Sunday.

The Victoria woman who pleaded guilty to abducting her 20-month-old daughter nearly two decades ago will not go to jail. Patricia O’Byrne disappeared with her baby daughter in May 1993 in violation of a court order.

A broken window led to the discovery of a break-in at the Victoria Chinese Pentecostal Church on Dowler Place. Members of the church came across the window about 10 p.m. Saturday.

Victoria police say a “massive” amount of copper wire was stolen from a Harbour Road building during the weekend and thousands of dollars in damage was done in the process.