Sharron Ho

Local woman offers tours throughout area

Drea Gibson turned her love of the outdoors into a career with her guiding business, Daytrip Drea

On the right, the winning tree decorated by Sooke Montessori,  above Mayor Wendal Milne awards the first place trophy to six-year-old Nya for the the Sooke Monterossi tree on Nov. 30.

Decorate for charity: Festival of Trees

Festival of Trees taking place at SEAPARC Leisure centre

On the right, the winning tree decorated by Sooke Montessori,  above Mayor Wendal Milne awards the first place trophy to six-year-old Nya for the the Sooke Monterossi tree on Nov. 30.
Photograph your pets with Santa.

Picture your pet with Santa

Fundraiser for animal rescue organizations puts your pet in focus

Photograph your pets with Santa.

EMCS welcome junior girls team

Sooke's high school recruits enough teens for junior girls basketball team

New anglers’ coalition hopes to lobby Ottawa

Coalition wants to see a stop to fishery decline on South Vancouver Island

Belmont clinic recognized

Island Sexual Health Society won the Helen and Fred Bentley Award for Excellence of Achievement

Leonardo and Pilar Maekawa during the Free Dance event.

Sooke skaters heading to international event

Leonardo and Pilar Maekawa heading to Croatia for the Golden Spin of Zagreb

Leonardo and Pilar Maekawa during the Free Dance event.
Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Regional Director Mike Hicks.

Road closure issues cancel Sooke triathlon

The Subaru Sooke Triathlon will no longer take place in the Sooke area

Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Regional Director Mike Hicks.

CWY host families sought

Canada World Youth exchange program coming once again to Sooke

Senior boys basketball pratice on Nov. 24.

EMCS ready for b-ball season

Senior boys basketball team has been three years in the making

Senior boys basketball pratice on Nov. 24.
Emergency personnel used the jaws of life to rescue driver from his vehicle in Sooke Road accident.

Two injured in two-vehicle Sooke Rd. accident

Police are seeking witnesses to a horrific accident on Nov. 22

Emergency personnel used the jaws of life to rescue driver from his vehicle in Sooke Road accident.
Sooke firefighters attend to a vehicle that fell over the embankment on the 5400-block of Sooke Rd.

Head-on collision on Sooke Road

Sooke firefighters use the jaws of life to extricate trapped occupants

Sooke firefighters attend to a vehicle that fell over the embankment on the 5400-block of Sooke Rd.
Murray Lambert, right, accepts his Diamond Jubilee medal from Bruce Ferguson, Canadian Merchant Navy Veterans’ Association president.

Volunteer firefighter, ex-navy man awarded medal

Diamond Jubilee Medal given to Murray Lambert for community service

Murray Lambert, right, accepts his Diamond Jubilee medal from Bruce Ferguson, Canadian Merchant Navy Veterans’ Association president.
Candlelight Vigil

Lest We Forget

Veterans and residents came together to remember those who served.

Candlelight Vigil
Sharron Ho

Editorial: Social media can help or hinder

Sooke reporter Sharron Ho writes about the use/misuse of social media

Sharron Ho
Justin Gilbertson will be competing in the Tough Mudder World Championships on Nov. 17 in rural New Jersey.

Tackling mud for sport

Shirley man to participate in the Tough Mudder World Championship

Justin Gilbertson will be competing in the Tough Mudder World Championships on Nov. 17 in rural New Jersey.
Tricia Lawrence, owner of You Had Me at Woof, hangs out with Kessa a golden retriever in the indoor area of the doggy day care.

Filling a need for our best friends

New doggy daycare opens up along Sooke Road, provides night boarding

Tricia Lawrence, owner of You Had Me at Woof, hangs out with Kessa a golden retriever in the indoor area of the doggy day care.
Reed Oster, CRD park interpreter, displays the internal and external anatomy of a male,chum salmon to St. Margaret School students.

Life cycle of salmon taught at Charters interpretive centre

Students learn about spawning salmon at the centre

Reed Oster, CRD park interpreter, displays the internal and external anatomy of a male,chum salmon to St. Margaret School students.
Melissa Edwards, EMCS band director, far right, plays the saxophone along with her band during regular practice.

School band returns to EMCS

Band program at high school revitalized after 12 years

Melissa Edwards, EMCS band director, far right, plays the saxophone along with her band during regular practice.
Happy Halloween

It’s Halloween

Pumpkins and ghouls and goblins will be out and about tonight

Happy Halloween