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The Island and 台湾MM裸聊室 Regional District Chairs hammered out priority areas while discussing a common policy concerning ferries at a Friday meeting in Nanaimo.

The Comox Valley Regional District (CVRD) water system will supply water to consumers via standby pumping stations from Sept. 12 at 8 a.m. until Sept. 23 at 4:30 p.m., which will require entering into stage three water restrictions.

One trial date has been set for a 59-year-old Comox Valley resident who faces 10 charges of sexual interference of a person younger than 16 at the Comox Valley Aquatic Centre.

With a room full of cycling supporters behind him, Ed Schum of the Comox Valley Cycling Coalition (CVCC) asked Courtenay council to build a bridge for pedestrians and cyclists across the Courtenay River this week.

Residents living near the Salvation Army shelter on Pidcock Avenue have to deal with noise, people hanging around on the lawn and people having sex in broad daylight, and it's ruining their privacy and sense of safety, they told Courtenay council Tuesday.

The defeat of the harmonized sales tax has nearly tripled B.C.'s deficit forecast for the current fiscal year, doubled it for next year, and left a $458 million gap for 2013 when the B.C. Liberal government has committed to balance the budget and call an election.

Owners Chris Kane-White (left) and Jim Revenberg, stand next to the Nissan Leaf, Canada's first zero-emission, 100 per cent electric, mass-market car which arrived Wednesday at the dealership on Silverdale Crescent in Courtenay.

Premier Christy Clark plans to create jobs and stimulate local economies in B.C. To do so, she and Chilliwack MLA/parliamentary secretary John Les are garnering feedback from Chambers of Commerce, service clubs and business people to prepare a job strategy by the end of September.

The Vancouver Island and Coast Visitor Centre is scheduled to open in the fall at the Comox Valley Parkway at the Cumberland interchange.

Comox firefighters had to act fast to snuff a bush fire on Pritchard Road on Tuesday afternoon.