Life

The Comox Valley Classic Cruisers car club held its first monthly meeting for 2011.

Tria Culinary Studio is greeting 2011 with its new cooking class schedule for February and March.

POHNPEI, Micronesia—They call it “the lost city of the Pacific,” but in truth Nan Madol has never been “lost” in the sense of having been hidden from European eyes.

Last January marked the launch of the Science and Nature Discovery Program at the Courtenay and District Museum.

On Feb. 26, MARS will host its sixth annual Eaglefest at the Maritime Heritage Centre in Campbell River. Bald eagles are magnificent birds and just one of many species cared for at the MARS rehabilitation centre.

Thousands of people in the Comox Valley will be doing the same thing this Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. — dropping, covering and holding on.

You wouldn’t know January is a slow month in the restaurant business if you happen by the Zocalo Café & Gallery on a Saturday night.

The deafening bang of exploding firecrackers.

For most of us, the holiday season is over and we are back into the swing of a normal routine.

As a naturalist as well as a cyclist, may I introduce you to an activity that you might not be aware of (unless you too pursue both those interests): a recent phenomenon that combines the lure of birding with the joy of cycling.