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Market Day and Local Colours Festival will be a huge affair, with more than 90 vendors in a giant street market.

New recruits would start in the fall.

Every Friday we feature Valley history taken from our back issues.

THE FLIPSWAP PROGRAM collects used cellphones to be sent to Third World countries rather than landfills here.

Young sleuths will once again meet at the Dynamite Detective VI camp Aug. 8 to 12 at 4R’s Education Centre on McPhee Avenue in Courtenay.

The 2011 Jean Kotcher Leadership Bursary has been awarded to Taylor (Tess) Syrowik, who is graduating from Mark R. Isfeld Secondary School.

THE ANNUAL HARVEST is July 23 at Island View Lavender Cottage Garden in Union Bay.

Naomi Klein and her partner Avi Lewis, two of Canada’s best-known media and publishing personalities, will speak in Powell River on July 17th at 2 p.m. at the Evergreen Theatre.

The third annual Comox Valley/Campbell River Variety Children’s Radiothon will broadcast live on The Eagle 97.3 FM on July 12 and 13 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day.

After paddling all winter, the competitive season has begun for the Comox Valley Dragonflies dragon boat team.