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  VICTORIA -- After a lengthy closure amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Crystal Pool and Fitness Centre in downtown Victoria will reopen to the public starting Feb. 1. Anyone looking to use the facility’s pool or fitness facility must register online or by phone before arriving due to COVID-19. Registration for classes, leisure swims, lane swimming and fitness programs will open on Jan. 28 at 9 a.m. The City of Victoria says that registration will help staff at the recreation centre manage capacity limits, which are in place due to the pandemic. While other community centres opened ear...

Eby could not elaborate on any specific hotels or buildings being considered. An estimated 190 people are sheltering in Victoria parks but the province is preparing to house “significantly” more than that to ensure no one is left behind, Eby said. B.C. Housing is working with the City of Victoria to identify appropriate supportive housing sites. Eby said any new supportive housing facilities should not be in the Burnside Gorge neighbourhood, which is already home to several such facilities including the former Comfort Inn on Blanshard Street and several former hotels on Gorge Road East...

The provincial government is looking to buy or lease another hotel or vacant residential building in Greater Victoria to house hundreds of people without homes before the end of March, says B.C.’s . . .

Mossy rocks at Riwaka Resurgence. This is where the Riuwaka River emerges from its slow, pitch-dark passage through Tākaka Hill, a process that removes all impurities from the water. The deep pool where the water rises into the light is not only crystal clear, but glows a beautiful blue in the dappled sunlight that shafts through the surrounding fern-filled beech forest. The river-smoothed boulders surrounding the pools of emerald water are draped in lime-green moss that makes the kind of shocking contrast in colour that only nature can get away with. PAMELA WADE/Stuff There are crystal-cl...

Ricky Burkett Ricky Alan Burkett, age 63, of River Falls WI, died on December 25, 2020 of pancreatic cancer at the River Falls Area Hospital, while also under the care of Allina Hospice. Born September 20, 1957 to Gene and Roberta aka ‘Bert’ (Crisp) Burkett. United in marriage to Denise Ann Paul on July 15, 1978 by a justice of the peace in the backyard of Denise’s cousin in Ceres, California. Ricky will be remembered by many for his stories of his California upbringing, spending weekends at the lake camping, riding Honda 90’s with family and friends, and his many life adventures....