›› Margaret Hantiuk
With our rainy winters, local gardeners soon find out that there is not really a water shortage here; but with our dry summers, we do need lots of water, and the issue is a storage problem. The ideal solution is a large cistern (100 gallon minimum) hooked up to your roof downspouts. It […]
October 31, 2014, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at William Stevenson Park, behind the Fernwood Community Centre
›› Mila Czemerys
This Halloween, join in the fun at the annual Fernwood Halloween Bonfire at William Stevenson Park behind the Fernwood Community Centre. Everyone is invited to this family-friendly event. Drop by and warm up on your trick-or-treat route. Bring […]
›› 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 […]
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 […]
›› Bamsey Franks
Aubrey Burke, when & how did you first come up with the idea for the Story Booth Project?
I came up the idea because I was a bit discouraged by contemporary art and inaccessibility. The idea of having a pop-up shop that was ground level, with 24 access via window front viewing, appealed to […]
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