Dave Obee

5 days ago | timescolonist.com | Dave Obee

We’ve had a rough few days getting our printed newspaper into your hands and we apologize to everyone for that. Here’s a quick summary of what has gone wrong. Since 2018, the Times Colonist has been printed at the Black Press plant in Ladysmith. After a few startup problems, the service provided has been great for years, except for power outages and road closures.

1 week ago | timescolonist.com | Dave Obee

Congratulations everyone — we’ve raised another quarter of a million dollars to boost literacy on Vancouver Island. This year’s Times Colonist Book Sale was another success, thanks to donors, buyers, corporate sponsors and about 800 volunteers. Saturday’s lineups were long. Sunday’s weren’t as bad. And the Victoria Curling Club was almost as busy on Monday, when school librarians and people from thrift shops and other charities hit the floor to grab whatever they wanted, for free.

2 weeks ago | timescolonist.com | Dave Obee

We’ve been waiting for this weekend since, well, the first weekend in May last year. It’s time for the annual Times Colonist book sale, where you can find just about every book you’ve been looking for, and many more that you didn’t know about. In the words of Aaron Mauger, one of the keenest book sale volunteers, “if you can imagine it, there is a book about it.”Odds are, that book is waiting for you at the TC sale.

3 weeks ago | timescolonist.com | Dave Obee

We’re looking for portable tables – lots of them – to help us get the Times Colonist Book Sale off the ground. Every year, we borrow hundreds of tables to help us sort and display books. But this year, many of our usual sources have dried up, because their tables are needed in polling stations for the federal election. We’re in a time crunch, because half a million books need to be sorted in time for the sale on May 3 and 4. Does your organization have tables to spare?

4 weeks ago | timescolonist.com | Dave Obee

On your mark, get set — and bring your gently used books to us on Saturday and Sunday. The first phase of the annual Times Colonist book drive and sale is this weekend, when we collect books in the parking lot of the Victoria Curling Club at 1952 Quadra St.Volunteers will be ready to accept your unwanted books. Then you will have two weeks to ponder the empty space on your shelves, and think of the best way to fill that space.