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Jordan Czop, family support worker at Saanich Neighbourhood Place, is creating the first bring your own box Father’s Day event on Saturday at Pearkes community centre. Dads and kids are encouraged to come and build cardboard creations.

For Father’s Day in Saanich, it’s bring your own box

Saanich parent resource centre hosts cardboard box day for dads, kids

Jordan Czop, family support worker at Saanich Neighbourhood Place, is creating the first bring your own box Father’s Day event on Saturday at Pearkes community centre. Dads and kids are encouraged to come and build cardboard creations.
At the Cottonwood preschool in Saanich, Mohmed Amer, 4, and Ella and Liam Shaw, both 5, take a gander at an first edition 1957 Cat in the Hat, signed and donated to the Queen Alexandra Centre by Dr. Seuss himself, more than 50 years ago. A local doctor spotted the book at an auction in Victoria and has donated it back to the Saanich-based centre for children.

Lost for decades, original Cat in the Hat returned to children’s hospital in Saanich

More than 50 years ago, the Cat in the Hat arrived at the doorstep at the Queen Alexandria Solarium, a first edition signed by Dr. Seuss.

At the Cottonwood preschool in Saanich, Mohmed Amer, 4, and Ella and Liam Shaw, both 5, take a gander at an first edition 1957 Cat in the Hat, signed and donated to the Queen Alexandra Centre by Dr. Seuss himself, more than 50 years ago. A local doctor spotted the book at an auction in Victoria and has donated it back to the Saanich-based centre for children.
Greg Holloway, left, Carolyn Herbert, Doreen Webb and Ian Crawford are trying get Royal Oak residents interested in building a community garden on public land between the Royal Oak Centre and the Pat Bay Highway. Saanich has proposed new gardens at Gorge Park and Commonwealth Place.

Group pushes for community garden in Royal Oak

It’s a one-hectare wedge of greenspace, covered in grass and brush alongside the Patricia Bay Highway.

Greg Holloway, left, Carolyn Herbert, Doreen Webb and Ian Crawford are trying get Royal Oak residents interested in building a community garden on public land between the Royal Oak Centre and the Pat Bay Highway. Saanich has proposed new gardens at Gorge Park and Commonwealth Place.

Former Victoria teacher on trial says stalking evidence fabricated by roommate

A former Vic High teacher adamantly denies stalking two women, and suggested his former roommate framed him.

This employee of Oak Bay Bikes received a significant cut to his neck after riding into a wire strung up across a trail in Gowlland Tod Park.

Update: Cyclist injured by wire hanging across hiking trail in rural Victoria

A mountain biker received a large cut along his throat after being clotheslined by a wire near Durrance Lake in Saanich.

This employee of Oak Bay Bikes received a significant cut to his neck after riding into a wire strung up across a trail in Gowlland Tod Park.
Rick Boomer, director or community and care with the Saanich Baptist Church, shows off the rich soil in one of 10 garden boxes built last Saturday by volunteers at an affordable housing complex on Wilkinson Road. A collaboration of Baptists, Mennonites and Home Depot store volunteers built the large community garden over a single day.

Growing community through gardens in Saanich

Volunteers band together for large community garden at housing complex on Wilkinson Road

Rick Boomer, director or community and care with the Saanich Baptist Church, shows off the rich soil in one of 10 garden boxes built last Saturday by volunteers at an affordable housing complex on Wilkinson Road. A collaboration of Baptists, Mennonites and Home Depot store volunteers built the large community garden over a single day.
UVic professor emeritus Patricia Roy has attended 46 Congress conferences over her academic career as a historian, and is ready to meet up with colleagues from across Canada once again.

Giant academic conference, community festival at UVic starts this weekend

7,000 researchers, students and academics are coming into Victoria for this weekend for Canada's largest annual academic gathering.

UVic professor emeritus Patricia Roy has attended 46 Congress conferences over her academic career as a historian, and is ready to meet up with colleagues from across Canada once again.
University of Victoria grad and Olympic rower Barney Williams is one of the dignitaries who helped kick off the celebration of the university’s new $77-million athletics complex CARSA, the Centre for Athletics, Recreation and Special Abilities.

UVic celebrates construction of major sports hub for Victoria

CARSA, the Centre for Athletics, Recreation and Special Abilities, aims for spring 2015 opening

University of Victoria grad and Olympic rower Barney Williams is one of the dignitaries who helped kick off the celebration of the university’s new $77-million athletics complex CARSA, the Centre for Athletics, Recreation and Special Abilities.

Family fundraises for Saanich man severely injured by tree

A Saanich man struck by a falling tree in Beaver Lake park last October remains paralyzed and in hospital.

Academic conference to boost bottom line for tourism in Victoria

Congress 2013 at UVic should give Victoria’s anemic tourism industry a healthy shot in the arm for 2013

University of Victoria engineering professor Rodney Herring shows the electron microscope he designed, and which in March created the highest resolution image yet, on the order of the fraction of the width of an atom. The microscope is considered the most powerful in the world.

UVic microscope proves to be the most powerful on the planet

With little fanfare in March, a microscope housed beneath UVic zapped a fleck of gold, and produced the world's most highly magnified image.

University of Victoria engineering professor Rodney Herring shows the electron microscope he designed, and which in March created the highest resolution image yet, on the order of the fraction of the width of an atom. The microscope is considered the most powerful in the world.
Mark, left, and Rob Bernhardt designed and built Vancouver Island’s first “passive house,” an ultra-efficient home in Saanich that seals in heat and uses ventilation to keep rooms at comfortable temperatures, while using almost no power. Here, Mark holds a prop that shows the triple-paned windows used in the house.

Saanich home aims for new high in energy efficiency

House is one of the most air-tight and energy efficient residential buildings in North America.

Mark, left, and Rob Bernhardt designed and built Vancouver Island’s first “passive house,” an ultra-efficient home in Saanich that seals in heat and uses ventilation to keep rooms at comfortable temperatures, while using almost no power. Here, Mark holds a prop that shows the triple-paned windows used in the house.
David Cubberley stands outside his restored 100-year-old home in Saanich. Hundreds of homes are turning a century old after building boom in Victoria from 1912-13.

Victoria chocked with century-old homes after 1913 building boom

Hundreds of grand old homes in Greater Victoria are celebrating their first century this year.

David Cubberley stands outside his restored 100-year-old home in Saanich. Hundreds of homes are turning a century old after building boom in Victoria from 1912-13.

Saanich OKs Emily Carr library lease with Uptown

The Emily Carr library branch should have a new home by the end of the year after Saanich council approved a 10-year lease with Uptown.

Ron Jordan, president of the Cordova Bay Community Club, stands in the gymnasium of the 67-year-old building. A number of deficiencies with the building – primarily used for badminton these days – has led the club to decide to replace it with a new, larger facility, with eight badminton courts.

After 67 years, Cordova Bay badminton building eyes reno


Purpose built by volunteer labour in 1946, the 7,000-square-foot hall lacks amenities one would expect at a modern-day recreation facility

Ron Jordan, president of the Cordova Bay Community Club, stands in the gymnasium of the 67-year-old building. A number of deficiencies with the building – primarily used for badminton these days – has led the club to decide to replace it with a new, larger facility, with eight badminton courts.
Glen Brown shows some highly mineralized water from the Cariboo region, from a town that seeking funding for a water filtration system. Brown, a Saanich resident who works in the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, has earned a provicial award for his work helping small communities manage and improve their drinking water systems.

Victoria-based civil servant lauded for improving drinking water across B.C.

The B.C. Water and Wast Association has bestowed Glen Brown its 2013 individual award of excellence

Glen Brown shows some highly mineralized water from the Cariboo region, from a town that seeking funding for a water filtration system. Brown, a Saanich resident who works in the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, has earned a provicial award for his work helping small communities manage and improve their drinking water systems.
Cecil Meares is seated, second from left, during Captain Robert Scott’s last birthday dinner on June 6, 1911, in Antarctica. Meares survived the Scott expedition and went on to retire in Oak Bay.

Museum exhibit explores tragedy and triumph at the South Pole

Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria opens Race to the End of the Earth on May 17

Cecil Meares is seated, second from left, during Captain Robert Scott’s last birthday dinner on June 6, 1911, in Antarctica. Meares survived the Scott expedition and went on to retire in Oak Bay.
Artist Maarten Schaddelee works on his newest sculpture of eagles intertwined as soulmates in his studio on Vantreight Drive in Gordon Head. This weekend the prolific sculptor is hosting his 20th annual spring art show.

For Saanich sculptor, nature inspires

Maarten Schaddelee only needs to look out the window at his waterfront Gordon Head home to find inspiration.

Artist Maarten Schaddelee works on his newest sculpture of eagles intertwined as soulmates in his studio on Vantreight Drive in Gordon Head. This weekend the prolific sculptor is hosting his 20th annual spring art show.
Dr. Stan Marcus shows a typical spine examination at the Royal Oak Chiropractic Natural Health Clinic, in this case on registered massage therapist Nicole Sing. The clinic is offering its second free health day for kids on Saturday.

Free clinic in Saanich aims to boost health habits with youth

The Royal Oak Chiropractic Natural Health Clinic is offering a free series of heath checkups for youth on Saturday

Dr. Stan Marcus shows a typical spine examination at the Royal Oak Chiropractic Natural Health Clinic, in this case on registered massage therapist Nicole Sing. The clinic is offering its second free health day for kids on Saturday.
Shipping container blown apart during propane explosion at construction site on Cloverdale Avenue.

Shipping container explodes in Saanich after propane leak

Cloverdale Avenue closed to traffic around 6:30 this morning

Shipping container blown apart during propane explosion at construction site on Cloverdale Avenue.