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BIRTHDAY FRIDAY: You cannot turn back the clock, so don't waste time and energy wishing that you could. All you can do is move on to the next experience and your birthday chart suggests there will be plenty of them over the coming year.

VANCOUVER — Starting Jan. 1, the province will begin offering a HIV-prevention treatment for free through the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS to high-risk individuals who ask for it, Health Minister Adrian Dix said Thursday.

What: The Gift When: Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and Friday and Saturday at 2 p.m. Where: Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton St. Tickets: $16 to $82 For more information, visit: balletvictoria.

Dear Dr. Roach: I feel the need to comment on your recent column on chiropractic therapy for back pain. After suffering 27 years of back pain, I want to give S.B. some additional thoughts.

Welcome the new year at a traditional levee, or take advantage of a free swim or skate. At Government House, B.C. Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon hosts the annual New Year’s Day levee with music and refreshments.

BIRTHDAY THURSDAY: A Mars-Neptune link on your birthday will boost both your creative powers and your ability to communicate your ideas to other people.

Dear Helen: I was given a very pretty African violet as a hostess gift at Christmas. I’d like to keep the plant healthy and flowering for as long as possible. What conditions will help? D.C.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 58-year-old male who takes losartan for high blood pressure and Prilosec for GERD. A couple of times a day, I get a tingling on the left side of my neck from roughly my left ear to my chin.

BIRTHDAY WEDNESDAY: You will accomplish some amazing things over the coming year, things that only a few short months ago you would never have dreamed you were capable of. And that's the secret: allow yourself to dream.

This holiday season we are featuring the 2017 winners of the Cedric Literary Awards, given to previously unpublished 91Ô­´´ writers of prose and poetry aged 50 or more.