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Enchanted Evenings: Join Wild Rice Modern Chinese Cuisine and Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden for a dinner and concert every Friday until Aug. 31. A special three-course preconcert dinner will be available at Wild Rice, 117 West Pender St.

EVERY avid golfer wants to improve their swing but might not know the best way to make it happen. The most effective way is to work on your range of motion, as the full golf swing forces your body to move in ways your normal daily activities don't.

NOTICES Seniors Peer Support: Caring volunteers ages 55+ are needed to assist other seniors to help maintain their independence and to access resources in the community.

IF you saw somebody treating their dog, or any animal for that matter, in a way that you considered abusive, would you step in and do something? That was the situation I found myself in when I witnessed a young woman using a training method that, alt

THANKS to a new ride-sharing website, local surfers can get more West Coast surf, sand and sunsets in before the season's end. Launched by Flo Devellennes and friend Anne-Marie Redhead, HitchTofino (www.hitchtofino.

TIME spent at the Main Event of Victoria's Taste festival of food and wine always yields some worthy finds and surprises - even more gratifying this year, considering the challenges of the last two Island vintages While fewer local wineries participa

DEAR Mattie: How should I wear my jewelry this summer? Craving bling in Ambleside Dear Ambleside: Jewelry is quite bold this summer. Each piece is significant in size and embellishment. I suggest fewer pieces and perhaps matching your jewelry.

The new Lexus ES brings a whole new meaning to the words practical luxury, which also happens to be the ESs new slogan. In many ways the ES epitomizes Lexus and is one of the original founding vehicles that the brand has been built around.

- Edible Landscaping, by Senga Lindsay (Harbour Publishing, 128 pages) $19.95 GROWING plants that are beautiful to look at and ones that you can eat doesn't mean you need to divide your garden in half.

THE Vancouver Home and Design show is offering style devotees a sneak peak in West Vancouver. The Summer Getaway preview party, taking place July 19 from 6 to 8 p.m.