February 2017
villagevibe News and views from the heart of Fernwood
Vancity Funds Helping Hands Vancity EnviroFund awards $39,500 to Fernwood Helping Hands—a push for greater local food access at the neighbourhood level
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ood access and the Good Food Box go hand in hand. While growth has transpired to reach more people (from the Gift of Good Food, weekly ordering and deliveries, to partnering with over 10 agencies and new pick-up locations) it remains equally important to value locally grown food. As the Good Food Box is expanding to a weekly distribution schedule beginning February 2017, this will necessitate the food supply to double in size in order to meet delivery needs. This is why the Good Food Box is also ramping up its new year’s resolution—a challenge to double the amount of produce sourced from Vancouver Island farmers this year. Last year, the Good Food Box invested over $20,000 in our Vancouver Island farms and our local Island food economy. If you peek inside a Good Food Box today, 25% of the fruits and veggies found inside are Island grown. When widening the scope to include the mainland, Oregon and Washington, that number jumps to nearly 50% of produce to be grown within our surrounding regions. Yet, the Good Food Box is not immune to the economic reality of rising food costs, and despite their savvy seasonal and bulk buying, the cost of food importing food is inevitably going up. Thus, increasing local produce accessibility while maintaining affordability of the Good Food Box is the next project for Fernwood NRG. This is where the inspiration bloomed for a new pilot project, Fernwood Helping Hands. Fernwood Helping Hands, a local
Alex Harned, Fernwood NRG's new Food Access Coordinator, will be coordinating Fernwood Helping Hands. This project aims to engage local farmers and eager volunteers to glean surplus produce and redirect it to food access programs in our neighbourhood. Photo: Mila Czemerys
produce gleaning program, will strengthen partnerships with local farmers to develop permanent, sustainable capacity to rescue gleaned produce in real time and flow surplus produce into the Good Food Box supply chain and other food security initiatives hosted by Fernwood NRG such as the Family Dinner, Daycare lunches, Family Resource Program and the Senior’s Lunch. This project has successfully been awarded $39,500 of the Vancity EnviroFund. Over the last five years the enviroFund™ has distributed a total of $3.2 million to a variety of initiatives, like Fernwood Helping Hands, that contribute to building a local food system that integrates shared values related to sustainability, community health and economic vitality. The Fernwood Helping Hands will work in partnership with LifeCycles Project Society, an organization that has successfully orchestrated a well-established Fruit Tree project for the past eighteen years and has included a successful Farm Gleaning
component for the last two years. LifeCycles’ volunteers head out to fruit trees and farms across the CRD to, ‘glean’ otherwise unused fruit and redistribute a large portion of produce to food insecure folks. In 2016, the Fruit Tree Project harvested and distributed a record breaking 66,000 lbs of fruit, but even then could not meet the demand to harvest and glean more from farmers and fruit tree owners. Fernwood Helping Hands will utilize LifeCycles’ successful Fruit Tree Project systems to ‘glean’ unsaleable produce and in turn, provide incentives for local farmers who participate. Volunteers will provide labour capacity needed to glean, clean, and sort surplus produce where local growers, both small and medium size farmers, young farmers, and urban agriculture farmers, might not have the capacity to do so otherwise. In exchange, volunteers will gain access to the inclusive skill-building opportunities of the Fernwood Food Literacy Curriculum—a combination of digital resources, experiential learning, applied knowledge and mentorship in growing,
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harvesting, food processing, and culinary arts—and of course, will take home their own Good Food Box! The potential impact of the Fernwood Helping Hands increases capacity to access healthy, local food for communities in the CRD through the streamlining the success of the Fruit Tree Project and Gleaning projects into the expansion of the Good Food Box Program—an established, successful, healthy produce distribution system. By the Good Food Box reducing its reliance on purchased inputs by substituting gleaned produce grown on Vancouver Island (procured through the use of volunteer labour), the program bolsters regional food security and provides an equitable local food access system for people in our diverse communities. Want to get involved? If you would like to become a Fernwood Helping Hands champion, as a farmer or a volunteer, contact Alex Harned at alex@fernwoodnrg.ca. Support for this project does not necessarily imply Vancity’s endorsement of the findings or contents of this report.
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We are committed to creating a socially, environmentally,
Fernwood Village
›› Lee Herrin In 2013, Fernwood NRG purchased two properties in the core of Fernwood Village (1310 Gladstone Avenue and 2009 Fernwood Road). As well, we obtained an option to purchase 2013 and 2017 Fernwood Road for redevelopment as affordable housing apartments. Overall, our vision was to add more housing and commercial space to the village core, a vision that was consistent with what we were asked to do by neighbours in our 2011 Neighbourhood Visioning Forum. A little more than three years later, various projects in the village core are either underway or very close to breaking ground. As previously announced in this space, Fernwood NRG determined after neighbourhood consultation that 2013 and 2017 Fernwood
Road were not suitable for redevelopment on the scale we were considering. As such, we decided not to exercise our option to purchase the properties. The properties were subsequently sold by the owner to private individuals. One of those families is in the process of building a new home at 2017 Fernwood Road. This past July, we obtained the development approvals necessary to transform 1310 Gladstone into a mixed use building with commercial space on the ground and main floors (the main entrance will be on Gladstone Avenue), and residential apartments or office units upstairs. This will be the first new mixed use building in the village to be built in 100 years. We really are building the village of the future. At this point, we are planning to commence construction in March of 2017. This past summer, we also entered into an agreement to sell the property at 2009 Fernwood Road to the Fernwood Inn group. Although we are friends, it was definitely a commercial transaction and the
sale was completed at a market price. In considering how we might redevelop the building, we realized that the site presented a lot of challenges. As such, it made more sense to renovate the existing building. Given we are entering into our own project, it also made sense to sell the building to an owner with the resources to renovate immediately, rather than having it sit vacant for another year while we worked through our Gladstone Avenue project. If you’ve been down to the village, you’ll realize that the renovations are already underway—the Fernwood Inn group is gutting the building and will be refurbishing it over the next six months. Watch this space in the next issue for an update from them on their plans for the space. In 2018, parts of Fernwood Village will look a little different than they have in the past. We’re laying the foundations of what the Fernwood will become over the next 100 years—a slightly denser village with more businesses and services focused on serving neighbourhood residents.
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Garden to cafeteria learning
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We are committed to using our resources prudently
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We are committed to the creation and support of neighbourhood employment;
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We are committed to engaging the dreams, resources, and talents of our neighbours and to fostering new links between them;
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We are committed to taking action in response to neighbourhood issues, ideas, and initiatives;
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We are committed to governing our organization and serving our
Vic High student Eden Murray digging some soil in the garden. Photo: Aaren Topley
You might have walked by Vic High students in their garden on Gladstone Avenue. Here, they have been able to learn about traditional food systems and connecting with the land from the people’s territory they reside on. Last year, Vic High received funding from Farm to Cafeteria and Farm to School BC to build a medicine wheel and camas meadow. The school also received funding for a garden that grows food which the school can use in their salad bar program.
City Harvest Cooperative and Mason Street Farms have partnered with Vic High to make sure the space is as productive as possible. Students from the Vic High Garden Club have been participating regularly having the chance to grow tomatoes, salad greens, and much more! As this partnership strengthens between urban farmers and Vic High, the activities will open to the entire student body, allowing teachers to sign up their class up to learn from the farm experts. Community support for this project is always appreciated. The school needs several wheelbarrows, gloves, trowels, poly plastic 10' wide in 100' rolls, and quality hoses (the kind that don't kink easily). If you want to make donations, get more involved or learn more, contact Aaren Topley, capitalregion@farmtoschoolbc.ca.
neighbourhood democratically with a maximum of openness, inclusivity and kindness;
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We are committed to developing the skills, capacity, self-worth, and excellence of our neighbours and ourselves;
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We are committed to focusing on the future while preserving our neighbourhood’s heritage and diversity;
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We are committed to creating neighbourhood places that are vibrant, beautiful, healthy, and alive;
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and, most of all, We are committed to having fun!
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News and views from the heart of Fernwood
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Thanks for the Gift of Good Food ›› Kathryn Juricic Our generous neighbourhood has, once again, outdone itself in supporting The Gift of Good Food. Together, through grassroots fundraisers, hundreds of community members and lots of creativity, we raised $64,000! Thank you, on behalf of the eleven community centres and transition houses, from Sooke to Saanich, for helping us provide 125 families with Good Food Boxes for this entire year. Consistent fresh produce for all is a big step towards a thriving community. In true Fernwood style, yoga studios and local craft breweries were by our side the whole time. Hoyne Brewing Co. and Phillips Brewing Co. were bookends of the campaign with Hoyne opening and Phillips capping it off with their tasting station donations, totaling over $3,000! Yogis came through with good karma, from acro-yoga classes to karma yoga months and first class by-donation. A special thank you to ONE Yoga, Lululemon Victoria, Moksha Yoga Westshore, Ashtanga Yoga Victoria and The Fernwood Yoga Den. Other special events held around town include an art show at BULLY Design Co., Oaklands West Coast Winter Market door donations, their fundraiser at the Copper Owl and Benji’s Pub Quiz at Northern Quarter. You came together to creatively fundraise through house concerts, holiday party donations, wreath making, a sit-athon, and more, all to get healthy veggies to families who need them. We had 30 incredible fundraising captains who pulled together over $10,000
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Live shows hype vinyl shop ›› Ross Currie
by advocating for The Gift of Good Food to their family, friends and coworkers. Over 200 people came through the Fernwood Community Centre to donate in person and $25,500 was donated online. All in all, it was a great success! Back in 2014, a couple Fernwood NRG staff members thought it would be a good idea to raise money so families in Fernwood could receive Good Food Boxes. We sent out letters to a handful of businesses in the neighbourhood and asked friends and family to support. It resonated and we were overjoyed to have raised $11,000. The next year, we partnered with eight community centres and with the generosity of people from across the Greater Victoria, 90 families were provided this gift in 2016.
This year, The Gift of Good Food partnered with 11 community hubs and will be supporting 125 families with fresh produce throughout 2017. Thank you for the support of the growth of this fundraiser; we believe it provides an important piece of support to members of our community. We extend our gratitude on behalf of our fellow family support workers and families who receive this gift. You can be sure all donations we receive will make a difference to the health and wellness of children and parents in a meaningful way. One family who received this gift shared, “You make a difference! Not just a one time difference either, every time I open my fridge, every time my four year old raids the fruit bowl, you have made a difference and we thank you!”
Vinyl Envy has been open for a little under two years, with its doors opening in April of 2015 under the ownership of Michael Cline. Since then it has morphed into a space for live performances, working under the handle of record store & live event lounge; something that Cline had envisioned for the space from the beginning. With the addition of Matthew Andrade, who handles promotions and audio engineering duties, the shop has transformed into a community space with an emphasis on all ages concert going and local talent.
Our goal is to keep it going, keep booking shows and providing a safe space for all ages to come see music “We started live shows in March last year (2016), in approximately nine months we did 50 shows and had 110 different artists,” said Andrade. Alongside local talent, the venue has managed to bring artists from across Canada, as well as Los Angeles and Seattle. “Our goal is to keep it going, keep booking shows and providing a safe space for all ages to come see music,” says Andrade. The venue will host shows on Friday and Saturday, with concert’s starting around 7pm and finishing around 10pm. “The best part of the whole experience is being able to witness how the music culture is here. A record store wouldn’t thrive in Victoria if it weren’t for all the music lovers, record lovers and appreciators; and a venue wouldn’t thrive either,” says Andrade. The space allows for customers to browse through a curated selection of new and used vinyl, cassettes and CDs across all genres. Andrade is quick to mention that the two sides “support each other,” offering a symbiotic relationship between recorded sound and live performance. “I think every band, customer or person that comes through the shop leaves a little imprint on the space,” says Andrade. “It’s a great opportunity for us to be involved with, and nurture the local music community. We can see it growing, we can see the positivity,” says Andrade. “What better place to go see a local band, than your local music store?” Whether your preference is record shopping or live music, or a combination of the two, Vinyl Envy should have you covered.
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News and views from the heart of Fernwood
feature:
March Madness
Itai Erdal and Dima Alansari star in This is Not a Conversation, where they will explore the conflict
Liisa Repo-Martell and David Patrick Flemming star in What a Young Wife Ought to Know. (March
between their cultures and examine what is happening in their homelands. (March 14 - 18)
21 - 25) Photo: Timothy Richard
Belfry Theatre’s SPARK Festival returns in March
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ore than 80 theatre artists from across Canada will descend on Fernwood this March for the Belfry’s annual SPARK Festival - an opportunity to see some of the best theatre in the country. SPARK will kick off on March 9 with the premiere of the musical BlissKrieg from Victoria’s Atomic Vaudeville. AV’s last musical, Ride the Cyclone, opened on Broadway last fall. Brooke Maxwell & the Neighbourhood Hootenanny Time Machine Band will perform at Hootenanny, our free all-ages live dance party on Sunday, March 12. Bring your kids out for this very family-friendly event. If you’re in the mood to sing, we’d love to see you at Why We Are Here! at the Royal BC Museum on Monday, March 13. This is an interactive singing experience that brings friends and strangers together to create and experience an invigorating theatrical event
about right here and right now. SPIN is inspired by the incredible true tale of Annie Londonderry, the first woman to ride around the world on a bicycle in 1895. One part documentary and another part musical activism, Evalyn Parry cleverly peels back layers of history to reveal a very contemporary heart to her theme of liberation. If you are politically minded, This is Not a Conversation explores the conflict between cultures. Itai was born in Israel and Dima was born in Lebanon to a Palestinian family. Both are natural storytellers and improvisers and both know a lot about the political context and history of the Middle East, of which few people in Canada have any real or nuanced understanding. This is Not a Conversation is a personal journey for Itai and Dima. Joan, a new piece from Victoria’s Theatre SKAM, explores the life of Joan Mans, who in 2007 entered extended care after she fell and was declared incapable. Actor and playwright Matthew Payne decided he would be her voice. This journey is at the heart of this project. Halifax’s 2b theatre (they co-created The God That Comes with Hawksley Workman at SPARK 2015) returns with What a Young
Evalyn Parry stars in SPIN, her tour-de-force performance celebrating the Bicycle as muse, musical instrument and agent of social change. (March 14 - 18) Photo: Jeremy Mimnagh
Wife Ought to Know by one of Canada’s hottest playwrights, Hannah Moscovitch. Victoria based actor and sound designer Brian Linds will premiere his site-specific performance piece, Reverberations, in a secret location in Fernwood. The festival closes on March 26 with Belfry 101 Live, a brand new play written and created by high school students over their Spring Break. Throughout SPARK we’ll host a num-
ber of free events, like our ever-popular mini plays, performed throughout the building. These tiny 10 minute gems run a couple of times each evening Wednesdays through Saturdays. We’ll also present a free reading of Mustard by Kate Sandler, winner of the 2016 Dora Award for Best Play on Monday, March 20. For complete details, pop by the Belfry and get a SPARK Brochure or visit belfry.bc.ca/spark or sparkfestival.ca.
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Healing City Soils: Fernwood Project studies if soils are safe for inner city gardening
›› Marika Smith The Healing City Soils Project has had a successful first year! The project, a partnership between the Victoria Compost Education Centre and Royal Roads University offered free soil testing for heavy metals such as lead, arsenic and cadmium at 137 garden sites across Victoria and Esquimalt to support people who are interested in growing food in their backyards, front yards, boulevards and community gardens. The project uncovered some fascinating information about historical land use in Fernwood leading to some interesting results. Though largely residential now, Victoria archives showed that a number of breweries existed in the late 19th century and early 20th century in central Fernwood
including the Lion/Empire Brewery in Spring Ridge that burned down in 1887. Other industries on more specific locations included a metal-works near Gladstone Street and a lumber-works near Vining Street. Fernwood residents who participated in the project raised a number of possible concerns including a history of backyard garbage burning, historic use of lead paint on house exteriors, and small businesses of appliance repair, sign painting, and automotive repair. Soil tested at the Compost Education Centre on North Park Street showed higher levels of lead, arsenic, nickel, chromium, zinc, and copper, not surprising since the site is downslope from what was the original Fairey technical building and autobody shop class for Victoria High School for more than sixty years, pre-dating the 1990 Gasoline Regulation that phased out leaded gasoline in Canada. At another site in Fernwood, a house built in 1912 had previously been sanded to remove several layers of paint in the late 1990’s. This site showed higher levels
of arsenic, lead and zinc and the original house paint used is the most probable explanation for the high concentrations, given that the site pre-dates the national lead-based paint products ban in 1978. While no sites in the study were found to contain levels of heavy metals that would indicate any significant health risks for residents, it is important to assess your soil before creating an edible garden in the city. Food can still be grown safely at sites containing heavy metals by following best practices for creating healthy gardens. Building on the success of our first year, student teams at Royal Roads will complete soil heavy metal tests in the spring of 2017 at residential gardens and boulevards in the municipalities of Saanich and Oak Bay to expand the data on the Soil Quality map, with a goal to eventually map the entire Capital Regional District (CRD). For more information and to view the interactive soil quality map and fact sheets, visit compost.bc.ca/healing-city-soils/.
Shawna Cheyne, James Heron and Michael Rae with the student team in the Royal Roads Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science Program doing soil testing at the Compost Education Centre. In the distance, you can see the former site of Vic High's Fairey technical building and autobody shop. Photo: Marika Smith
artist’s aside:
Create Victoria – Make Your Mark! ›› Michelle Harris Victoria, and especially Fernwood, is home to an incredible mix of artists, designers, performers, entrepreneurs and innovators who contribute to a vibrant arts and culture scene. The City of Victoria is developing Create Victoria, a five-year Arts and Culture Master Plan, designed to nurture conditions for this creativity to flourish. The plan will align ideas, people, and resources around a shared vision and a set of goals, strategies and tactics to realize Victoria’s full potential. What’s your vision for arts, culture and heritage in Victoria? The City will soon be asking as engagement with the broader community and the creative industry launches mid-month. In March, a series of cultural cafes will be held at a variety of venues, inviting the community to share
their vision for a vibrant arts and culture future for Victoria. What does a creative city look like? What do you need to be a successful arts and culture entrepreneur or organization? And how can the City support this vision and needs? Since 2010, more than 250 Cityowned and community-run arts and culture resources have been mapped. To ensure Victoria’s arts and culture scene is accurately represented moving forward, and to help the City identify opportunities and gaps, the community will be invited to add venues, organizations, businesses and public art to the Arts Victoria online cultural map. Public input combined with recent data collected during the CRD Art Strategy engagement will inform the City’s cultural planning. “Nurture Our Arts, Culture and Learning Capital” is a strategic objective in
The New Groovement performering at FernFest 2015. Photo: City of Victoria
the City of Victoria 2015 – 2018 Strategic Plan, and developing an Arts and Culture Master Plan is an action and an outcome in the Plan. The City will come back to the community in early June for feedback
on its draft Master Plan. Watch for more information on how you can Make Your Mark in helping shape the future of Victoria’s arts and culture scene. For more information, please visit victoria.ca/create.
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News and views from the heart of Fernwood
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Strategies for reducing It’s all fun and games garden maintenance at Oaklands “If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.” - Jaime Lerner
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Follow these tips to create a low-maintenance, stress-free garden at your home. Photo: Valentina Locatelli
›› Margaret Hantiuk Here are some simple hints to make your gardening easier. They are simple ideas that if followed, make a huge difference in having a satisfying, successful garden with less work! 1. Avoid lawns in shady areas (use permeable paving or shady plants) 2. Aim to cover bare soil (groundcover plantings, mulches, pavers) 3. Apply mulches (annually if using organic material that break down) 4. Use geotextile weed barriers under gravel or chip mulch paths 5. Build raised beds with mulched paths for food gardening 6. Hoe lightly and often to disturb weeds 7. Intervene early: identify and remove weeds that seed and spread 8. Compost carefully: keep invasive and toxic (or seeding) weeds out 9. Choose sustainable plantings (not tender, frail or invasive plants) 10. Use long-lasting materials (hardscape, supports, mulches, etc.) 11. Reduce complex care issues by planting your easy care plants in groups
12. Use perennials, self-seeding annuals, and bulbs 13. Keep water features simple, plan carefully and set up properly 14. Right plant, right site, planted properly (match plant to conditions) 15. Use paint free surfaces in your hardscape and support systems With many of these tips, research is important to discover hardy, easy plants that will work best. This means learning the yard’s conditions including sun, shade, soil, drainage, etc. and then researching to find plants that will suit. Some perennials and small shrubs are so easy and rewarding— if situated well—they make gardening a pleasure rather than a chore. Some of these tips have to do with becoming attentive and learning to work smart. This means getting weeds before they spread and not breeding weeds in compost. A few minutes spent ridding the garden of weeds before they get going will save hours of labor later. Better yet, heed the preventative tips by using weed barriers, covering bare soil so that weeds have no place to grown. And lastly, doing it right the first time with any hardscape means more time enjoying being in the garden in the future.
get (with more than one zero in it) for this. Calling all clever, creative minds for a street game-making project! Bring your agile mind and game playing experience to the design table. Monopoly reconceived as “Pay it Forward”? Funky large-as-life BananaGrams? A community oriented re-think of Battle Ship? Bring your ideas, bring your enthusiasm. Not much in the way of zeros for this one though so we’re hoping to source some donations and rely on recyclables. Embrace your skills! Get creative! Give back to your community! Most of all, don’t be shy, contact Hazel, our Community Development Coordinator at 250-370-9101 x4 or community@oaklandsca.com.
If these words resonate, then we’ve got two projects at the Oaklands Community Association that will be right up your alley! Are you up for the challenge of designing, sourcing and constructing an environmentally friendly ‘community caravan’? Think e-bike plus trailer meets Pimp My Ride. In other words, take what you see in the picture above and add a superstructure that is functional and fabulous. This ‘Oaklands Community Caravan’ will be used by our community gardener team, provide a ‘pop-up’ presence at the Oaklands Sunset Markets and at various street and block parties. We even have a bud-
FERNWOOD NRG WINTER PROGRAMS JANUARY - APRIL 2017 MONDAY Fernwood Family Dinner, Ongoing, 5:00pm – 7:00pm, $2 donation/drop-in Qi Gong, Jan 9 – Apr 24, 6:00pm – 7:30pm, $120/14, $15/drop-in Nuu Chah Nulth Drumming (Closed Group), 7:30pm – 10:00pm
TUESDAY Family Resource Program, Ongoing, 9:30am – 11:30am, by donation Bootcamp (Register with Victoria Bootcamp), 6:00pm-7:00pm Bi-Polar Babes: 25+ female peer support, Ongoing, 7:00pm – 8:30pm VSSC Dodgeball (Preregister with VSSC), 7:00pm – 10:00pm
WEDNESDAY Best Babies (Postnatal), Ongoing, 11:30am – 2:30pm Good Food Box Pick-up, Ongoing, 1:00pm – 8:00pm, Order at thegoodfoodbox.ca Kyudo, Jan 11 – Apr 26, 8:00pm – 10:00pm, $140/14
THURSDAY Family Resource Program, Ongoing, 9:30am – 11:30am, by donation Best Babies (Prenatal), Ongoing, 11:30am – 2:30pm Bootcamp (Register with Victoria Bootcamp), 6:00pm-7:00pm VSSC Dodgeball (Preregister with VSSC), 7:00pm – 10:00pm Karma Yoga Class, Ongoing, 7:00pm – 8:00pm, $5 donation/drop-in, $2 mat rental
FRIDAY Kids Circus Yoga 3-5yrs, Jan 6 – Feb 17, 9:30am – 10:30am, $60/6, $12/drop-in Seniors’ Lunch (55+), Ongoing, 12:00pm – 2:30pm, $4/drop-in Metaphysical Meetup (Preregister with MeetUp), 2nd Friday/month, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
SATURDAY Bellyfit, Jan 7 – Feb 11, 10:00am - 11:00am, $15/drop-in, first class free Capoeira for kids 5-8yrs & parents, Jan 7 – Apr 29, 12:30pm – 1:15pm, pricing on website Capoeira for kids 8yrs+ & adults, Jan 7 – Apr 29, 1:15pm – 2:30pm, pricing on website
SPECIAL EVENTS February Fox Fair, February 18, 2017 Vintageous Vintage Fair, March 3 & 4, 2017
Vinyl Supernova, March 18, 2017 Jewelry & Gem Show, March 25, 2017
Holiday closures January 2, February 13, April 14 & April 17.
For more information & to register contact:
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Fernwood Community Centre 1240 Gladstone Avenue, Victoria, BC V8T 1G6 T 250.381.1552 info@fernwoodnrg.ca fernwoodnrg.ca/fernwood-nrg-programs/ recreation/
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