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FREE Ready to Rent RentSmart Courses 2017

Take this course to learn how to increase your chances of getting the housing you need!
RentSmart is a 12-hour course that covers the following:

Tenant rights and responsibilities
Landlord responsibilities and expectations
Living with roommates, housemates and neighbours
Effective communication skills
Budgeting and planning for housing affordability and stability
Maintenance do’s and don’ts
Crisis management, […]

By |February 7th, 2017|Events, News|0 Comments

Create Victoria—Make Your Mark

Victoria, and especially Fernwood, is home to an incredible mix of artists, designers, performers, entrepreneurs and innovators who contribute to a vibrant arts and culture scene. The City of Victoria is developing Create Victoria, a five-year Arts and Culture Master Plan, designed to nurture conditions for this creativity to flourish. The plan will align ideas, […]

By |February 7th, 2017|News, Village Vibe|0 Comments

Fun and games at Oaklands

“If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.” Jaime Lerner
>> Hazel Lyder

If these words resonate, then we’ve got two projects at the Oaklands Community Association that will be right up your alley!

Are you up for the challenge of designing, sourcing and constructing an environmentally friendly […]

By |February 7th, 2017|News, Village Vibe|0 Comments

Thanks for the Gift of Good Food

›› Kathryn Juricic & Mila Czemerys

Our generous neighbourhood has, once again, outdone itself in supporting The Gift of Good Food. Together, through ­grassroots fundraisers, hundreds of ­community members and lots of creativity, we raised $64,000!

Thank you, on behalf of the eleven community centres and transition houses, from Sooke to Saanich, for helping us provide 125 […]

By |February 3rd, 2017|Buzz, News, Village Vibe|0 Comments

A year long gift of good food

Good food is needed not just at Christmas, but all year long

>> Alex Harned

December is officially here! After many months of waited anticipation, it is finally permissible to engage in the bounty of holiday cheer. Frosted snowflakes and Rudolph sightings are commonplace in downtown shop windows, glowing strings of lights line the neighbourhood streets, and […]

By |December 20th, 2016|Buzz, Events, News, Village Vibe|0 Comments

Sounds of the Holidays: George Jay students at The Belfry Theatre

>> Tania Wegwitz

Music and the sounds of winter festivals from around the globe are cascading through the hallways of École George Jay Elementary this time of year.

Encouraged and led by teacher Annie Shum, the students are finding joy in weekly music classes.  From younger students trying their hands at rhythm instruments and xylophones generously donated […]

By |December 19th, 2016|Events, News, Village Vibe|0 Comments

Hey, lighten up a little

>> Hazel Lyder

Many of us have so much. So much that we feel somehow vaguely or overtly oppressed by it all: our stuff a burden that anchors us uncomfortably in a place, or in the past, something to trip over, to dust.

And now we find ourselves once again at the Season of Giving. How many […]

By |December 14th, 2016|News, Village Vibe|0 Comments