The Sooke Chamber of Commerce organizes a Newcomers Club, a get-together for relatively new residents to the Sooke region (three years or less) to meet with other newcomers as well learn about our local community in the areas of history, … Continue reading →
Monday, May 11 2015 A head-on collision at the 5500 block of Sooke Road closed the road completely for three hours on Monday afternoon. It re-opened three hours later, just before 7:30 p.m. The crash happened close to the Shell gas station on the … Continue reading →
Local business will keep you in “stitches” with many a fine “yarn!” by Phil N Rossner As anyone who knows me relatively well can attest, when it comes to all things fashionable, I appear to be a bit of a … Continue reading →
This sunny beautiful day resulted in a number of photographs. Available from the Local Lens section of Sooke PocketNews is a gallery of the season’s first Summer Market as well as a number of photos from the 2015 Duck Race. … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →Click on any photo to see it larger. If you have photos to contribute, use our contact page and we will happily add them to our collection. Photos by Harvey Russell Photos by Britt Santowski, PocketNews
Continue reading →There’s something green happening at Pure Elements, and it’s getting stylists and clients excited. The salon will now be re-purposing its hair clippings for oil spill cleanup, while simultaneously diverting 95% of its waste from landfill. The move means that … Continue reading →
As many may have either heard or experienced, there was an issue with the bridge over Sooke River today (May 8, 2015), impacting both traffic coming to Sooke, and traffic leaving in the mid afternoon. We at Sooke PocketNews contacted the Ministry … Continue reading →
Earlier, Sooke PocketNews announced the eighth annual writing contest for EMCS Students. Now, we are happy to say that the results are in! The following announcement is from the Sooke Writers’ Collective website. [sam id=”9″ codes=”true”]On April 8th, SWC held our annual … Continue reading →
There is a new and exciting project on the go in our Sooke community. The project is called Sooke’s Water Park for Kids. Need for a Water Park in Sooke (or how this project came about). As a parent of … Continue reading →
