Tag: volunteers

WeCan Shelter Society to build ninth shipping container home

A local non-profit will be building its ninth low-cost home with funding from a local club. The Rotary Club of...

Island Health recruiting volunteers for new hospitals

Volunteers are being sought to help patients and visitors at the new North Island Hospitals. Island Health is...

Oyster River Fire thanks volunteers

Volunteers in Oyster River have been honoured at the annual Oyster River Volunteer Fire Department Banquet. Fire Chief Bruce...

MADD Canada launching Comox Valley chapter

A local family is spearheading a push to open a MADD Canada chapter in the Comox Valley. Leslie Wells is spearheading...

Emergency Program looking for volunteers

The Comox Valley Emergency Program is looking for volunteers. The program is holding an information session this evening for anyone...

Valley volunteers celebrated

Kudos to scores of dedicated volunteers putting in countless hours year in, and year out! That was the idea...
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Trio of candidates vying to serve as Courtenay mayor

Courtenay voters will see three names on the ballot for mayor on Oct. 17.

Hangar 98 – Episode 16: The Great Victoria Blackout of 1979

During a long power outage in 1979, Victoria became the focal point of a story that has lasted the test of time...and quite possibly led to one of the best memories from one of the island's worst storms.

Hangar 98 – Episode 15: Pachena Point Foghorn Incident

Over on the island's west coast, mariners have been haunted by a coastline nicknamed "The Graveyard of the Pacific", but alone at Pachena Point sits a lighthouse with stories of it's own.

Hangar 98 – Episode 14: Godzilla’s Goldstream Rampage

Hangar 98 opens to Jet Nation revealing a little secret Hollywood's been keeping since they shot Godzilla back in 2014. That secret's buried around Goldstream.

Hangar 98 – Episode 13: The Leechtown Gold Rush

In this featured Hangar 98 Episode, a once bubbling gold rush town near Sooke almost had it all, then it all came crashing down leaving nothing but a piece of land...and possibly hopes of a new 'find' on the island.