Verbal taunts of 鈥淭hat鈥檚 so gay,鈥� graffiti displays of swastikas and other hurtful symbols, racial epithets called out of car windows on the streets of the Comox Valley are all ways of causing harm and pain to members of the Comox Valley community. And they are behaviours which the Comox Valley doesn鈥檛 accept.

BC Hydro will be undertaking equipment maintenance on the Comox Dam spillway gates this Saturday, and to complete the work, BC Hydro must lift one of the two gates for adequate clearance.

For the second-degree murder of an acquaintance in Vancouver, a Comox Valley man received a mandatory life sentence recently without hope of parole for 10 years. Aaron Juhani Yliruusi, 32, was convicted Jan. 31 by a B.C. Supreme Court jury in Vancouver for killing William Merchant on Jan. 11, 2009 in the 65-year-old鈥檚 apartment.

School trustees are making it easier for the public to find out how they voted on different issues. The board decided last week that trustee votes at public meetings 鈥� whether for, against or abstaining 鈥� will be recorded in the minutes.

Love. In the Comox Valley, and across the country to Prince Edward Island, the simple four-letter word is closely associated to