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Halloween Monster Bash 2.0

 

The 2nd Annual Monster Bash is back by popular demand.  This Community Centre Network event brings youth ages 9-13 years together from all over Victoria for a Halloween party like no other.  The entire James Bay Community School Centre is transformed into a youth space with different activities: bouncy castles, boffer battles, dj, fear factor, […]

By |October 17th, 2011|News|3 Comments

From Fernwood to the Flathead

Join National Geographic explorer and author Douglas Chadwick and Fernwood resident Sarah Cox from Sierra Club BC for an engaging evening of storytelling about the wild, feisty and fierce wolverine!  

Chadwick, an acclaimed speaker, will describe his close encounters with the elusive wolverine during his October tour to promote Sierra Club BC’s Flathead River Valley […]

By |October 11th, 2011|News|0 Comments

Great British Columbia ShakeOut

On October 20th at 10:20am, the Fernwood Community Centre staff and clients will be participating in the second Great British Columbia ShakeOut. This is a province wide event to educate the public, businesses, and organizations about how to prepare and protect themselves during an earthquake. The first ShakeOut was held earlier this year on January […]

By |October 7th, 2011|News|0 Comments

A Thanksgiving Message from your MP

October 7, 2011

A Thanksgiving Message from your MP

 

Dear Constituents,

As I head home to Victoria this Thanksgiving, I find myself reflecting on all that we have to be thankful for. We are going through difficult political times, but I am thankful for living in an inspiring, progressive community that I take pleasure in representing. I am […]

By |October 7th, 2011|News|0 Comments

Poll / Pole wordplay

 
Photo by Angela Hemming
>> John Coy

Historically poles have always been a form of public expression. That’s when they say “the public’s going to the polls”, they’re talking about democracy where everyone gets their say.  Recently, however, in modern times neighbourhood power poles have been a medium of expression used mostly by vandals “tagging” messages often […]

By |October 6th, 2011|News|0 Comments

Luis Enrique Oliver at the Cornerstone

From Sept 13th to Oct 9th, 2011 the Cornerstone Cafe is displaying the exhibition
‘Esa Tormenta Magnifica‘, a solo show of visionary paintings
by Luis Enrique Oliver.

Here is a video about the show:

By |September 28th, 2011|News|0 Comments

Fernwood’s Bubble Man in The Globe and Mail

Fernwood pops as the Bubble Man delights
TOM HAWTHORN | Columnist profile | E-mail
VICTORIA— From Monday’s Globe and Mail

Like a swordsman preparing for battle, Terry Wilson unsheathed a slender plastic rod from a long narrow tube.

He strolled across the street, deliberation in every step.

As he did so, he held out his instrument.

What he held in […]

By |September 12th, 2011|News|0 Comments