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Oak Bay Village businesses prepare for Pumpkin Art on the Avenue and Trick or Treat on the Avenue.

$500 donation to Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary will see Kathleen Burton chow down on mealworms Oct. 29

Saanich 150 commitee turns to public for time capsule ideas

31-year-old Khushal Rana fighting for his life in Victoria hospital

Coast Collective’s latest exhibit celebrates all things late fall

The Victoria Fall Home Expo returns, Rebels host the Cullen Cup, a gallery tour and more

Daniels’ piece ‘Unititled (Coffee Cup)’ was selected from over 2,000 submissions.

Galey Farms has become synonymous with Halloween on the Saanich Peninsula. The farm, located at 4150 Blenkinsop Rd., is celebrating Pumpkinfest every weekend in October from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There is a kid-friendly ghost town, hayrides to the pumpkin patch, a corn maze, train rides, petting farm, haunted house and more.

Barbara Julien is a local writer and nature enthusiast who writes about species in Oak Bay

“Beer is as necessary to the worker as milk is to the baby…Hands off the workers’ beer,” MLA Thomas Uphill, 1943