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Bizkids – December 8, 2019

BIZKIDS2019 is taking place Sunday, December 8th from 1pm to 3pm at Fernwood Community Centre.

A craft & holiday fair featuring items hand made by children in the Victoria Home Learning Community. Come and support locally made crafts and holiday items at this fun afternoon event. Free entry with items available for sale.

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By |November 27th, 2019|Events|0 Comments

Gift of Good Food Fundraiser Launches Nov. 18–Dec. 31 2019 and Aims to Raise $100,000 to Support 200 Families

Monday, November 18, 2019—Victoria BC. From Nov. 18 through Dec. 31, 2019 Fernwood NRG launches the annual Gift of Good Food Fundraiser for the fifth year in a row. The Gift of Good Food fundraiser aims to raise $100,000 which will provide fresh produce to 200 families facing poverty in the Capital Regional District for […]

By |November 18th, 2019|Buzz, Events, News|0 Comments

The Gift of Good Food 2019

›› Mila Czemerys

Fernwood NRG is thrilled to be hosting our annual fundraiser The Gift of Good Food. We’ve partnered up with community centres across the capital region and are aiming to raise $100,000! This amount of funds would support 200 families with much needed fresh produce. Every $500 raised will support a family in need […]

By |October 28th, 2019|Buzz, Editorial, Village Vibe|0 Comments

Autumn is for trees

>> Kayla Siefried

September, October, and even into November mark the months where people all over our region are harvesting fruit from trees, especially the leftover apple and pear trees from orchards long past. If you’ve been longing for a fruit tree of your own, now is the time to plant one (or prepare your soil […]

By |October 10th, 2019|Garden Gleanings, Village Vibe|0 Comments

Ordinary Days – October 18-20, 2019

Ordinary Days is a funny, contemporary musical about four quirky 20-something New Yorkers trying to figure life out and have some laughs along the way. The four characters do very ordinary things: they go to Starbucks, go to a museum, go to post-secondary school, cat-sit, take taxi rides, move in with their partners. As their […]

By |October 10th, 2019|Events|0 Comments

Hydro pole painting no longer permitted

After a decade of art and community ­building, BC Hydro asks Fernwood NRG to stop pole painting

›› Beth Threlfall

How to start a neighbourhood art project? Everything begins with a spark: mine was attending a community-building lecture hosted by Fernwood NRG back in 2008. Walking home afterwards, I knew I could do something for our neighbourhood, […]

By |September 30th, 2019|Buzz, News, Village Vibe|0 Comments

Fernwood Halloween Bonfire 2019

›› Mila Czemerys

Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. This day marks the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of winter and months of ­darkness. Celts believe that on this one night of the year, the boundary between worlds of the living and the dead becomes blurry.

On October […]

By |September 30th, 2019|Events, News, Village Vibe|0 Comments