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Mount Douglas secondary vice-principal Phil Pitre, right, has kept a close eye on Grade 12 student Adam Johnson after the teen started skipping classes in Grade 10. The Greater Victoria School District is seeing higher graduation rates thanks to aggressively tracking and counselling students at risk of not finishing high school.

Greater Victoria keeps students on graduation track

Aggressive strategy in SD61 yields highest completion rate in district history

Mount Douglas secondary vice-principal Phil Pitre, right, has kept a close eye on Grade 12 student Adam Johnson after the teen started skipping classes in Grade 10. The Greater Victoria School District is seeing higher graduation rates thanks to aggressively tracking and counselling students at risk of not finishing high school.
Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence CEO Robert Bettauer announces a new running track during the institute's five year anniversary celebration.

PISE to add running track to athletics arsenal

The sports centre based at Camosun College aims to build a four-lane, 400-metre athletics track

Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence CEO Robert Bettauer announces a new running track during the institute's five year anniversary celebration.
A Saanich family lost most of their possessions after their rental home caught fire last Sunday. Neighbours and complete strangers have rallied to their aid. Tanya Burt, left, and Jason Yankowy, right, stand with their kids Lexi Yankowy and Nathan Round, in front of where flames burst out the home's windows.

Generosity flows for Saanich family devastated from house fire

Neighbours, strangers donate furniture, clothing, gifts for family that lost everything in Obed Avenue fire on Sunday

A Saanich family lost most of their possessions after their rental home caught fire last Sunday. Neighbours and complete strangers have rallied to their aid. Tanya Burt, left, and Jason Yankowy, right, stand with their kids Lexi Yankowy and Nathan Round, in front of where flames burst out the home's windows.
Victoria's Jeff Scott whoops it up after receiving a free Dodge Grand Caravan outfitted with adapted driving and wheelchair equipment, at the Shoppers Home Health Care store on Hillside Avenue. Scott won the van through a contest organized by the National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association.

Limited mobility, but not limited in life

Founder of a charity to support people with physical disabilities, Victoria's Jeff Scott handed keys to new van

Victoria's Jeff Scott whoops it up after receiving a free Dodge Grand Caravan outfitted with adapted driving and wheelchair equipment, at the Shoppers Home Health Care store on Hillside Avenue. Scott won the van through a contest organized by the National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association.
Under the watch of Spectrum hockey academy student Mary Harding, six-year-old Maggie Wehrle learns to ice skate at Pearkes arena. The Courage Canada event gets blind or partially blind students onto the ice to skate and play hockey in a safe, structured environment.

Visually impaired students take to the ice

Ten blind or partially blind students had full reign of the arena Friday afternoon with players from the Spectrum hockey academy

Under the watch of Spectrum hockey academy student Mary Harding, six-year-old Maggie Wehrle learns to ice skate at Pearkes arena. The Courage Canada event gets blind or partially blind students onto the ice to skate and play hockey in a safe, structured environment.

Greater Victoria School District CUPE union votes against the grain

CUPE local 947 rejected a contract which included a 3.5 per cent wage hike, but in exchange for a weaker benefits package

Const. Doug Franklin and Sgt. Alan Gurzinski, of the Saanich police's bike squad, are seen here last February patrolling the trails in Cuthbert Holmes park. The bike squad was suspended in September and the four officer reassigned to other duties.

Saanich bike patrol off the road

Saanich police’s long-running bicycle patrol is off the road until at least January due to staffing issues.

Const. Doug Franklin and Sgt. Alan Gurzinski, of the Saanich police's bike squad, are seen here last February patrolling the trails in Cuthbert Holmes park. The bike squad was suspended in September and the four officer reassigned to other duties.
UVic music professor and tuba virtuoso Eugene Dowling is celebrating the 35th year of Tuba Christmas, a free concert at Market Square on Saturday, at 1 p.m.

Tuba Christmas celebrates 35 years

UVic music professor brings together tubists for a fundraising concert at Market Square on Saturday

UVic music professor and tuba virtuoso Eugene Dowling is celebrating the 35th year of Tuba Christmas, a free concert at Market Square on Saturday, at 1 p.m.
Victoria photographer Garth Lenz was one of this year's winners in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition for his 'Oil Spoils' taken of a bitumen mine in the Alberta tarsands. An exhibition of Wildlife Photographer of the Year photos opened today at the Royal B.C. Museum.

Tarsands offer striking landscapes for Victoria photographer

Victoria photographer Garth Lenz earns international recognition for bitumen mine aerial photo for Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Victoria photographer Garth Lenz was one of this year's winners in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition for his 'Oil Spoils' taken of a bitumen mine in the Alberta tarsands. An exhibition of Wildlife Photographer of the Year photos opened today at the Royal B.C. Museum.
Mount Doug students Armel de la Fuente, her brother Dave and Tamiko Sianen have a taste of Filipino treats during a fundraiser at the school that raised money for Red Cross typhoon relief for the Philippines. Filipino food was donated by families of students with Filipino ancestry, and was one of a long list of fundraisers in Victoria supporting typhoon relief.

Filipino community keeps up momentum for typhoon relief

Like many of Victoria’s Filipino community, Tamiko Sianen was glued to the TV as Typhoon Haiyan rolled through the homeland of her parents.

Mount Doug students Armel de la Fuente, her brother Dave and Tamiko Sianen have a taste of Filipino treats during a fundraiser at the school that raised money for Red Cross typhoon relief for the Philippines. Filipino food was donated by families of students with Filipino ancestry, and was one of a long list of fundraisers in Victoria supporting typhoon relief.

B.C. anti-gang unit hits Greater Victoria drug traffickers

An alleged member of a violent drug trafficking gang in Greater Victoria now faces charges after being busted last April.

B.C. land trusts healthy, despite TLC creditor woes

The Land Conservancy, a high-profile land trust saddled with $7.5 million in debt and under creditor protection, is an exception to the rule

UVic biology graduate Chris Tuttle shows a handful of Scotch broom found near her house in Fairfield. Tuttle and Layne Woodfin are developing a biotechnology that could target and kill specific invasive plants based on deactivating elements of its genetic code.

Victoria scientists seek the genetic kill switch for invasive plants

Emerging biotechnology could precision target pest species while allowing native plants to thrive

UVic biology graduate Chris Tuttle shows a handful of Scotch broom found near her house in Fairfield. Tuttle and Layne Woodfin are developing a biotechnology that could target and kill specific invasive plants based on deactivating elements of its genetic code.
The open space behind Gape Epstein and Rob Wickson at Gorge Road Park will become Saanich's next community allotment garden, the first new municipal garden built in decades. Epstien, co-ordinator of the garden committee with the Gorge Tillicum Community Association and Wickson, president of the GTCA, spearheaded the drive to convert 1,600 square meters of field to about 60 garden boxes.

Garden to grow in Saanich’s Gorge Park

Field to become allotment garden run by Gorge Tillicum Community Association

The open space behind Gape Epstein and Rob Wickson at Gorge Road Park will become Saanich's next community allotment garden, the first new municipal garden built in decades. Epstien, co-ordinator of the garden committee with the Gorge Tillicum Community Association and Wickson, president of the GTCA, spearheaded the drive to convert 1,600 square meters of field to about 60 garden boxes.

Saanich awards organic waste contract to Cobble Hill company

Saanich's organic waste will journey over the Malahat after the municipality awarded Fisher Road Recycling a $4.85 million contract

Beth Grayer builds a toolbox for her women in trades discovery program at Camosun College Interurban, where students sample a number of trades. The province recently announced funding to boost the number of seats at Camosun that allow students to experience trades training without having to secure an apprenticeship.

Easing entry into trades training

Pre-apprenticeship programs at Camosun help trades students find their niche

Beth Grayer builds a toolbox for her women in trades discovery program at Camosun College Interurban, where students sample a number of trades. The province recently announced funding to boost the number of seats at Camosun that allow students to experience trades training without having to secure an apprenticeship.
On-duty parent Sheree McCall watches her daughter Kenna McCall (right) and Olivia Martin play with a toy castle at Lambrick Park preschool. The co-op non-profit preschool is hosting its major fundraising event this Saturday.

Parents the backbone of co-op preschool model

Non-profit Lambrick Park preschool hosts annual fundraiser

On-duty parent Sheree McCall watches her daughter Kenna McCall (right) and Olivia Martin play with a toy castle at Lambrick Park preschool. The co-op non-profit preschool is hosting its major fundraising event this Saturday.
Fred Haynes, president of the Saanich Community Association Network, and Coun. Paul Gerrard, chair of the Healthy Saanich advisory committee, are leading a workshop this Saturday aiming to field ideas from residents on how Saanich can be made a healthier and more livable community.

Building blocks for a better community

Public workshop seeks ideas for improving quality of life in Saanich

Fred Haynes, president of the Saanich Community Association Network, and Coun. Paul Gerrard, chair of the Healthy Saanich advisory committee, are leading a workshop this Saturday aiming to field ideas from residents on how Saanich can be made a healthier and more livable community.
Mark Edwards, with SNC-Lavalin Environment and Water, checks for oil residue at the Colquitz creek remediation site. B.C. Hydro funded a project earlier this fall to excavate the stream bank after an underground power cable leaked mineral oil. Tree cuttings will be planted this week to stabilize the bank.

Colquitz creek in Saanich no worse for wear

Oil hasn’t returned, but fish have, after excavation project

Mark Edwards, with SNC-Lavalin Environment and Water, checks for oil residue at the Colquitz creek remediation site. B.C. Hydro funded a project earlier this fall to excavate the stream bank after an underground power cable leaked mineral oil. Tree cuttings will be planted this week to stabilize the bank.

The Land Conservancy starts process to sell land trust property

Victoria-based land trust caught been paying off creditors and B.C. that prohibits selling charitable land to pay debt