Natalie North

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Sheila Jones and her 11-year-old children Katie and Dominic van Oort stand amid Dominic’s Scarlet runner beans, along with strawberry plants grown by both children in the family's backyard. The bumper crops came at the end of the van Oorts’ second year in the South Malahat 4-H garden club – a group in which they hope to welcome new members this month.

Kids keen to get hands dirty

Saanich family looks to grow South Malahat 4-H gardening club

Sheila Jones and her 11-year-old children Katie and Dominic van Oort stand amid Dominic’s Scarlet runner beans, along with strawberry plants grown by both children in the family's backyard. The bumper crops came at the end of the van Oorts’ second year in the South Malahat 4-H garden club – a group in which they hope to welcome new members this month.

Oak Bay values stay steady in declining market

Oak Bay and West Shore see marginal gains in residential values

Christina Patterson, front, leads Watch for Bones at the Intrepid Theatre Club beginning on Jan. 10.

Launch Pad takes off

Watch for Bones born on the streets of Barkerville

Christina Patterson, front, leads Watch for Bones at the Intrepid Theatre Club beginning on Jan. 10.
A scene from Hellbound?, a film that challenges the view of heaven and hell.

Hellbound? Christian filmmaker challenges concept of hell

Filmmaker Kevin Miller brings the debate over hell’s existence to the screen in Hellbound?

A scene from Hellbound?, a film that challenges the view of heaven and hell.
Michelle Schroeder leads Jules Payne through some basic yoga poses at Ajna Yoga on Theatre Lane before the two co-owners of the studio welcome their first clients of the day.

Start the year off with yoga

Ajna Yoga studio and training centre hopes to attract some new clients

Michelle Schroeder leads Jules Payne through some basic yoga poses at Ajna Yoga on Theatre Lane before the two co-owners of the studio welcome their first clients of the day.
Civility and etiquette specialist Elizabeth Backman reminds people that it’s good manners to write thank-you notes for presents received over Christmas.

The Dos and Don’ts of holiday etiquette

’Tis the season for celebrating, and with the added festivities come added pressures and opportunities for more social blunders.

Civility and etiquette specialist Elizabeth Backman reminds people that it’s good manners to write thank-you notes for presents received over Christmas.
Newly homeless, Jonathan is happy to get food and supplies he received from CARTS (Christian Actions Reflecting the Spirit). The group meet every Sunday handing out sandwiches, toiletries, treats, socks and hot cocoa downtown.

CARTS delivers love every Sunday night

Al Lindskoog was hooked on CARTS from his first experience offering small comforts to some of Victoria’s most vulnerable residents.

Newly homeless, Jonathan is happy to get food and supplies he received from CARTS (Christian Actions Reflecting the Spirit). The group meet every Sunday handing out sandwiches, toiletries, treats, socks and hot cocoa downtown.
Monterey middle school students Quinton Wilson, left, Wyatt Geisbrecht and Jonathan Noone work mulch on Anderson Hill Park as they conduct an experiment working with the municipality’s parks department to control invasive plants. A group of approximately 21 students cleared gorse and broom in a select spot and then covered it with layers of newspaper and mulch in a technique called lasagna. The group will find out in the spring if their experiment works by keeping the unwanted plants from the sun and having the camas cover the area instead.

Ecokeepers care for the land

Since Oct. 18 students in Grade 6 to 8 at Monterey middle school have removed invasive species in Anderson Hill Park

Monterey middle school students Quinton Wilson, left, Wyatt Geisbrecht and Jonathan Noone work mulch on Anderson Hill Park as they conduct an experiment working with the municipality’s parks department to control invasive plants. A group of approximately 21 students cleared gorse and broom in a select spot and then covered it with layers of newspaper and mulch in a technique called lasagna. The group will find out in the spring if their experiment works by keeping the unwanted plants from the sun and having the camas cover the area instead.

Bowker Avenue resident waits for tests on contaminated soil

Report on Oak Bay’s response to flooding also due Friday

Ethan Schandl smiles from atop his horse Smudges as instructor Kyrie Bond looks on during a session at the Victoria Riding for the Disabled Association.

Riding a relief from severe allergies

Pennies for Presents buoys Children’s Health Foundation

Ethan Schandl smiles from atop his horse Smudges as instructor Kyrie Bond looks on during a session at the Victoria Riding for the Disabled Association.

Heritage planning continues

New survey live on Oak Bay’s website until Dec. 31

Regulating beauty, taste in development

Review of Floor Area Ratio report fills council chambers

Murray Leslie, a software developer for Ocean Networks Canada, snaps a photo of a box marked with Japanese characters at Telegraph Cove in Cadboro Bay for a demonstration of Coastbuster, the mobile app. The program is designed to allow anyone to help Canadian and U.S. authorities catalogue and track marine debris, especially objects swept to sea following the 2011 Japanese tsunami.

Tracking tsunami debris in the hands of citizens

Masses of debris from Japan expected to hit West Coast over Christmas

Murray Leslie, a software developer for Ocean Networks Canada, snaps a photo of a box marked with Japanese characters at Telegraph Cove in Cadboro Bay for a demonstration of Coastbuster, the mobile app. The program is designed to allow anyone to help Canadian and U.S. authorities catalogue and track marine debris, especially objects swept to sea following the 2011 Japanese tsunami.
Ana Ayala of Haliburton Community Organic Farm holds her pal Goldie, one of the chickens she's raising on the farm, now celebrating its 10 year anniversary this weekend.

Haliburton community farm thrives, 10 years on

A lot has changed over the decade Haliburton Community Organic Farm has operated six gardens on seven acres of Saanich land in Cordova Bay.

Ana Ayala of Haliburton Community Organic Farm holds her pal Goldie, one of the chickens she's raising on the farm, now celebrating its 10 year anniversary this weekend.

Students set to save as textbooks go digital

B.C. leads way in creation of open textbooks for post-secondary education

Crystal Dunahee, president of Child Find B.C. and Child Find Canada, left, stands with Saanich-based author Valerie Green, who has written the story of Michael Dunahee’s abduction and how the family has coped since he went missing 22 years ago.

Dunahees share story of lost son

New book touches on struggles and continued hope, now 22 years after Michael disappeared

Crystal Dunahee, president of Child Find B.C. and Child Find Canada, left, stands with Saanich-based author Valerie Green, who has written the story of Michael Dunahee’s abduction and how the family has coped since he went missing 22 years ago.
Graham Shorthill, founding member of the Friends of Mount Douglas Park Society, stands with the new charter rock unveiled at the park entrance Thursday morning during a ceremony to mark 20 years since formation of the society and Saanich took ownership of the park.

Saanich celebrates 20 years as stewards of Mount Doug

On Thursday, the district unveiled a version of the constitution engraved on a towering rock at the park’s main entrance

Graham Shorthill, founding member of the Friends of Mount Douglas Park Society, stands with the new charter rock unveiled at the park entrance Thursday morning during a ceremony to mark 20 years since formation of the society and Saanich took ownership of the park.
Vancouver Island Health Authority chief medical health officer Dr. Richard Stanwick sits in the hearing booth while Albert Guite, site manager of Statistics Canada's Canadian Health Measures Survey, runs a simulation of tests currently being performed in mobile site set up at the University of Victoria. Hundreds of randomly selected Victoria and Saanich residents will undergo a range of health testing at the site until mid-December as a part of the most extensive national survey on health ever conducted in Canada.

Canada’s most comprehensive health survey underway at UVic

Vancouver Island’s chief medical health officer sits inside a soundproof hearing booth with a smile on his face.

Vancouver Island Health Authority chief medical health officer Dr. Richard Stanwick sits in the hearing booth while Albert Guite, site manager of Statistics Canada's Canadian Health Measures Survey, runs a simulation of tests currently being performed in mobile site set up at the University of Victoria. Hundreds of randomly selected Victoria and Saanich residents will undergo a range of health testing at the site until mid-December as a part of the most extensive national survey on health ever conducted in Canada.
Daphne Shaed, a transgender woman and Camosun College pride director, holds a candle in the campus pride office for the Transgender Day of Remembrance this weekend.

Tolerated, but not accepted

Discrimination the day-to-day norm for transgender people

Daphne Shaed, a transgender woman and Camosun College pride director, holds a candle in the campus pride office for the Transgender Day of Remembrance this weekend.
Fort Cafe co-owners,from left, Jon Perkins, Benji Duke and Melissa Byrnes stand on the small stage in their restaurant/club. The trio's lease isn't being renewed for their Fort Street space.

Curtain falls on beloved arts venue

Fort Café to close in December; owners hope to channel outpouring of community support into new location

Fort Cafe co-owners,from left, Jon Perkins, Benji Duke and Melissa Byrnes stand on the small stage in their restaurant/club. The trio's lease isn't being renewed for their Fort Street space.