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Coast Hotels offering support to help ease the burden on evacuees

The Village of Cumberland and members of CUPE Local 556 have ratified a four-year collective agreement, replacing the previous contract that expired in January. The agreement provides for wage increases of two per cent per year in each year, as well as benefit enhancements and changes in contract language.

They say lightning strikes twice.

The Comox Valley Regional District’s Sewage Commission has received a Spill Response Plan for the Comox Valley sewage system, which includes the forcemain (pipe) that moves wastewater from Courtenay and Comox to the sewage treatment plant located on Brent Road.

Today at 11:15 a.m., the Comox Valley RCMP responded to a motor vehicle collision involving a vehicle and cyclist on the Comox Valley Parkway, just west of Piercy Avenue in Courtenay.

About two dozen workers and 20 trucks are on their way to the BC Interior to help restore power.

A man was transported to hospital with second to third degree burns resulting from a Thursday morning trailer fire at Maple Pool Campground and RV Site in Courtenay.

The Simon’s Cycles YANA Ride returns to the Comox Valley on Sunday August 20.

The 20th annual event takes place Aug. 27 at Ravenhill Farm on the Saanich Peninsula.

Linda Hepner says she is ‘embarrassed’ after ‘thugs’ shoot innocent bystander, a 64-year-old woman from Ontario