Invisible need and the case for fresh food
›› Kathryn Juricic
This holiday season, Fernwood NRG is aiming to raise money to provide fresh fruits and vegetables every two weeks for 160 families in need throughout Greater Victoria. Sure, we all get why this is important. But do we really understand the need, the impact? To get […]
Fernwood NRG’s Child Care programs are Victoria’s only location for BC’s new Universal Child Care Prototype
›› Lee Herrin
After months of applications and meetings with the Province of BC, Fernwood Neighbourhood Resource Group’s Child Care Program has been selected as the only Victoria location for BC’s new Universal Child Care Prototype.
This means families in Fernwood NRG’s […]
›› Jessica Ziakin-Cook
Many of us feel the mayhem at the mall and the hullabaloo of the holiday season and miss the essential meaning of Christmas. And yet most of us still shuffle off to shop like sheep every December, spending too much money on presents and other commercial trappings. But St. Barnabas Anglican Church offers […]
›› Lauren Gaultier
After many years of planning, the Vic High Learning Farm was a joint initiative prompted when a former faculty member reached out to Aaren Topley, Capital Region’s Community Animator, of Farm to School BC, for help in creating a sustainable farming program. With much behind the scenes effort, Topley was able to create […]
Following her re-election as Mayor of Victoria, the Village Vibe caught up with Lisa Helps in her office to hear her reflections on the previous term and her goals for the next one
›› Lee Herrin
VV: Four years ago the Village Vibe printed an interview with you that ended with “It’s a sense of new possibility […]
›› Brett Higson
Three years ago, Amy volunteered on a shark conservation project in Fiji. This is where she got the upfront personal view of plastic waste in our oceans and its destructive effect on the ecosystem. She vowed to create a simple-to-use product that people could implement in their daily lives which was not only […]
Zip up your home, for comfort and conservation
›› Ruben Anderson
If your door is a little drafty it may not seem like a big deal. But a gap just a ¼” wide—multiplied over the height of the door—ends up being a lot of square inches. That ¼” gap adds up to the equivalent of a hole […]
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