Artist Linda Lindsay speaks as her sculpture Winds of Time is unveiled at its new home at the King George Terrace lookout in Oak Bay on Friday. DARREN STONE, TIMES COLONIST, April 23, 2021 Artist Linda Lindsay speaks as her sculpture Winds of Time is unveiled at its new home at the King George Terrace lookout in Oak Bay on Friday. An anonymous donor provided $18,000 for the sculpture, which depicts a woman rising from the Salish Sea, and another $3,000 for a specially made steel plinth. article continues below
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Many Victoria pharmacies are seeing a huge boost in interest in the AstraZeneca vaccine since the province expanded eligibility to anyone age 40 and older.“They jumped on it so fast. I couldn’t . . .
In February, Sooke trophy hunter Jacine Jadresko made headlines after posting Instagram photos of herself holding two local wolves she’d killed. The attention-seeking “huntress” whose notoriety began when she appeared in a documentary raving about travelling to Africa to kill a lion claimed she planned to wipe out the remaining members of the wolf pack. Outrage at Jadresko’s actions was matched only by people’s disbelief that she was technically working within the confines of the law. Hunting regulations in British Columbia allow hunters to kill up to three wolves a year, and there is currently no limit on trapping.
All Underhill knew growing up what that her father, Flight Lieutenant Robert Coventry, 27, was piloting a Bristol Blenheim bomber when it lost power and crashed near Gloucester, England in September 1940. What she just discovered recently is that he stayed at the controls to prevent the aircraft from plowing into a school in the tiny hamlet of Quedgeley. And now that community plans to honour his memory. Coventry was the grandson of the 9thEarl of Coventry and the son of the Hon. Thomas George Coventry, a charming, adventurous, Eton-educated Englishman who served as Conservative MLA for Saanich in the 1920s but whose love of gambling on horses caused grief.