School district continues to add more students to Comox Valley

School District 71 continues to add more students. Record file photo
Latest number is higher than the five-year growth trend for local schools

A conservation officer rescues the black bear cub from a tree in Port Alice. (Cathy Anderson photo)

Black bear cub rescued from Vancouver Island tree, taken to wildlife centre
Nanaimo’s Stephen Parkes won $50,000 on a $3 scratch-and-win ticket recently. (Photo submitted)

Nanaimo man wins $50,000 on $3 scratch ticket
Vernon soil producer takes home national cannabis award

Vernon soil producer takes home national cannabis award
How storytelling in tourism can support truth and reconciliation

How storytelling in tourism can support truth and reconciliation

City of Penticton is being called out for evicting and selling a vulnerable woman’s home at auction for not paying $10,000 in property taxes. (File photo)

Penticton should repay vulnerable woman after home sold to pay property tax: B.C. Ombudsperson
The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says home sales activity in the area for the month of October remain below long-term historical averages. A real estate sign is pictured in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, June, 12, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS Jonathan Hayward

Mortgage rates predicted return to pre-pandemic levels of 3% by late 2022, BCREA says
Phil Adams and Rhiannon Dawkins at North Island Medical Mobility believe in a people-first business philosophy and they understand your personal mobility device will work better and last long with preventative maintenance.

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    Whether you're dressing up for a holiday dinner, or going for a more casual look for a team get-together, you can find what you want at Walker 24 Menswear at low, retirement-sale prices!

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      Members of the Canadian Forces build a temporary dike with sandbags behind houses on Clayburn Creek in Abbotsford, B.C., on Wednesday, November 24, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

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      Beams of light are projected into the air behind a plaque placed in memory of the fourteen women who were murdered on December 6,1989, in an anti-feminist attack, in Montreal, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

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      Saanich police confirm that a youth struck by a vehicle while in a marked crosswalk on Dec. 6 has died. (Black Press Media file photo)

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      The Sarita Estuary sits at the heart of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations’ ḥahuułi (traditional territory) and has been a source of food, transportation and cultural value to the nations for generations. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

      Island First Nation mostly agrees to B.C. plan for old growth logging deferral

      Huu-ay-aht will defer 96 per cent of plan, 33 percent of its territory made up of old growth forests

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      Standing, from left - incoming Comox Coun. Jonathan Kerr, Rabbi Bentzi, Courtenay Mayor Bob Wells, Cumberland Mayor Leslie Baird, and Courtenay Coun. Doug Hillian attend a Hanukkah celebration at Courtenay City Hall. Rabbi Bentzi from Chabad Nanaimo & Central Vancouver Island was in the Comox Valley to mark the event. Photo submitted

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        All School District 71 schools closed Monday due to snow

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          Obituaries

          Donald Frederick Beeler

          Dec 5th, 2021

          David Malcolm ‘Dave’ Parsons

          Dec 1st, 2021

          Gerald McLaughlin

          Nov 29th, 2021

          Neil Richard McLellan (Squeek)

          Nov 24th, 2021

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          Nov 22nd, 2021

          David James Pettman

          Nov 22nd, 2021

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          Royal City Youth Ballet’s performance of ‘The Nutcracker’ at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre on Dec. 7, 2019. Theatre and sports events with more than 50 people now require proof of vaccination and seating, but business holiday events can include standing and mingling. (Andrea Rondeau/Cowichan Valley Citizen)

          Business holiday parties OK for more than 50, B.C. tourism group says

          Standing, mingling allowed if you’re vaccinated for COVID-19

          Falling Canadian dollar coins or loonies are pictured in North Vancouver, B.C. Wednesday, May 29, 2019. A new survey of more than 4,000 small- and medium-sized businesses found the average salary increases given to men this year were double those women received. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

          Small, medium-sized businesses gave women smaller raises than men in 2021: survey

          Humi research also found men were 4.4 per cent more likely to receive a raise than women

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          Darius Rucker is the headliner for Sunfest 2022. (Photo courtesy of dariusrucker.com)

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          John Reischman and the Jaybirds have been changing the face of bluegrass for 20 years, and they’re set to play Merville’s Big Yellow Hall Friday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m.. (Photo/Harrison Festival Society)

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            This combination of 2021 photos shows Philadelphia Eagles’ Jason Kelce,, left, and Billie Eilish in London. The grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and Eagles center have something in common, broadcasters have difficulty pronouncing their names. Both Eilish and Kelce, as well as “omicron” made it onto this year’s list of most mispronounced words as compiled by the U.S. Captioning Company, which captions and subtitles real-time events on TV and in courtrooms. (Tim Tai/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, Pool, Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

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            During this time of the year, many people will make donations to food banks. However, hunger and poverty are ongoing challenges. (File photo)

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            The Isfeld Ice senior boys basketball team hosted Nanaimo’s John Barsby Secondary in a Tuesday night league game. Scott Stanfield photos

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            Flooding this past spring forced many houses in the Houseman Subdivision to erect makeshift barricades from sandbags to hold back the water. (Patrick Davies photo)

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