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Raise Your Voice Fundraiser

 

Come play tournament rounds of the board game ‘Life’!

This is an all-ages event where tables will play the board game ‘Life’ with live entertainment so that families, youth, and adults can play a game, and save a life!

Prizes, refreshments, snacks, and free childcare included. All proceeds will go directly to Raise Your Voice’s scholarship fund […]

By |April 30th, 2013|News|0 Comments

BC Election Candidates Forum

Photo by futurestreet

Hear what each of the major parties to the BC Provincial Elections are promising to do about Climate Change and Energy Supply
 

Who: Victoria area candidates have been invited from the BC Liberals, Greens, NDP and Conservatives to explain their parties’ platforms and discuss them with the audience.

In attendance will be:

Andrew Weaver, (BC Green […]

By |April 8th, 2013|News|0 Comments

mark your calendar: Pole Painting Project

Pole Painting Kits will be available during the week on May 20th – 24th at 1313 Gladstone Avenue for all the painters out there. Photo: Liz Rubincam 
Spring cleaning! Our telephone poles need a new coat of paint

 Mila CzemerysPublished April 2013 Village Vibe Newspaper 
Come pick-up your free ‘Pole Painting Kit’ at 1313 ­Gladstone Avenue, during the […]

By |April 3rd, 2013|News|0 Comments

garden gleanings: Linda Gilkeson’s Gardening Tips

>> Margaret Hantiuk
Linda Gilkeson is a local treasure house of information for organic gardeners. As an entomologist and year round food gardener living on Saltspring Island, she has ­written some popular books that are ­excellent resources: West Coast ­Gardening: ­Natural Insect, Weed and Disease ­Control (just revised and updated), Backyard Bounty: The Complete Guide to […]

By |April 3rd, 2013|Garden Gleanings, News, Village Vibe|0 Comments

artist’s aside: Return to Innocence—reawakening the art of storytelling

 Coco Kimmitt performs “The Cloak of Love” at Cornerstone Cafe’s story time edition of Thursday Night Soundscapes. Jan. 31, 2013. Photo: Louis Bockner Louis Bockner
Published April 2013 Village Vibe Newspaper  “Sorry man,” I say into my phone as I walk towards Fernwood’s Cornerstone Cafe. “I can’t go to the bar. I’m going to story time.”

Silence.

A year or […]

By |April 3rd, 2013|News|0 Comments

A Small & Delicious Life in Fernwood

Ruben’s homemade bacon smoking machine built with a cardboard box, hotplate, aluminum pie plate, tin foil and dry hickory chips. Photo: Ruben Anderson The Bacon Life

 Ruben AndersonPublished April 2013 Village Vibe Newspaper We moved back to Victoria in 2011. Being closer to ­family was part of it, but we also sought a more richly meaningful life. We […]

By |April 3rd, 2013|News|0 Comments

buzz: History Bites

 Dr. Robert Griffin speaking at Fernwood University about the many small-scale local grocers who used to line the streets of Victoria. Photo: Mila Czemerys  Jack DerricourtPublished April 2013 Village Vibe Newspaper 

Delighted faces flocked to the Cornerstone Cafe Tuesday March 5th for the first installment of Fernwood University. This year’s free lectures focused on the issue of […]

By |April 3rd, 2013|News|0 Comments