Village Development Project taking shape
›› Kelsey Singbeil
Last October, the Fernwood Neighbourhood Resource Group (Fernwood NRG) announced its plans to purchase four properties in the heart of Fernwood Village. It was a bold idea that embodied our principle of ensuring neighbourhood control and ownership of neighbourhood assets. These buildings represent an opportunity to achieve these goals—we’re […]
Help the Compost Education Centre give back to the earth by by attending their fall fundraiser and auction on Thursday, October 9th! Proceeds from the fundraiser will directly fund their classroom and adult workshops and allow them to continue to educate children and adults about the importance of soil conservation, composting, and creating & sustaining local food […]
›› Phyllis Ferguson, Steve Miller, & Linda Passeri
Why did we make a 4,000 mile journey from Springfield, Missouri USA to Fernwood? We came because your soul pole project is the biggest that we found anywhere in the world. We wanted to learn how to put one on properly and do it in our own community […]
Did you know? There’s another municipal election coming on Saturday, November 15th, 2014
›› Lee Herrin
Historically, voter turnout in municipal elections in Victoria is dismal—in the last election in 2011 it was 26.3%, up a whole percentage point from 2008 when it was 25.3%. Out of 65,612 citizens of this fair city who were eligible to […]
›› Alysha Punnett
“Isn’t it illegal?” “I heard you’ll get fined.” “We would love to grow food on our boulevard, but won’t the City remove it?” Does this sound familiar?
I smile as Mike Large pedals his bike up to the Compost Education Centre’s gate. Here is the unassuming, hard-working lawyer who has taken boulevard gardening out […]
A profound (Fernwood) evening at City Hall
›› Bill McKechnie
A report on a business meeting at Victoria City Hall might sound a bit dull, but a recent public hearing was, in the words of Councillor Shellie Gudgeon, “a profound evening.”
Fernwood Urban Village, a group of passionate individuals, was asking for rezoning on a site in Fernwood […]
It was a summer of growth at Oaklands Community Centre
›› Ben Clark
It was a summer of growth at Oaklands Community Centre. In June, we welcomed a new Executive Director, Traci Fontana-Wegelin, to our organization. Traci came to us after spending several years with North Island Community Services Society, and we are very fortunate to have […]
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