Here are several great places Victorians love to cool off in during the summertime, from splash pads to river beaches and community pools, Victoria has it all!
New Rodeo Receives Award from the City of Victoria
CONGRATULATIONS:
The New Rodeo restaurant, 407 E. Rio Grande St. has just received the Keep Victoria Beautiful Business Beautification Award for the month of June. This is a monthly award that is given monthly to recognize businesses that help to beautify the Victoria community through property upkeep, landscaping, and other improvements. This is something that I noticed last week as I drove past the Rodeo Restaurant. The restaurant received a traveling sign to display and bragging rights during the month of June
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Do you know of a Victoria business that is doing its part to help keep Victoria Beautiful? Nominate them for our monthly beautification award! Here are the nomination guidelines:
VICTORIA Students and staff at Dover Bay Secondary school in Nanaimo may notice some changes to the school next year. The province and local school district are investing a combined $3 million to roll out renovations in underused space at the school. The renovations will include the creation of four new classrooms, a fitness area, a learning hub and a gender-neutral washroom. Once the new classrooms open, the school will no longer need to use four portable classrooms, where about 100 students currently have classes, according to the province. Nanaimo is a wonderful place to raise a family, and as more children start attending school, we must provide them with dynamic learning environments, said B.C. Minister of Education Jennifer Whiteside in a release Wednesday.
VICTORIA As vaccination rates rise on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border, so too is pressure to reopen the border to tourist travel. Clipper Vacations CEO David Gudgel says there is a lot of pent up demand for the passenger ferry that connects Seattle and Victoria. “We felt like it’s pressure behind a dam, and the dam is beginning to crack, and it may happen very quickly,” said Gudgel on Tuesday. Meanwhile on the Canadian side of the border, the Tourism Industry Association of Canada launched a campaign Tuesday calling on Ottawa to lay out a timeline for reopening the border, and to allow recreational travel as soon as safely possible.