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Feds scale back monitoring for Fukushima nuke fallout

The Friends of Strathcona Park are inviting people to experience exactly what they love about the park during a free day-long festival this Saturday. Day hikes, kayaking, massage and First Nations storytelling are just a few of the free, low-impact activities planned for the Strathcona Wilderness Festival, which takes place Aug. 20 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Buttle Lake

New guidelines were released this week to help B.C.'s coastal communities update floodplain area maps and adapt to rising sea levels.

Courtenay residents are going to be asked whether they want the city to borrow money to renovate the Lewis Centre. The City will use the alternative approval process to find out if citizens support borrowing up to $4.2 million for upgrading and expanding the Lewis Centre, and on Monday, council voted to establish elector response forms and to determine 18,021 as the total number of electors to which the approval process applies.

Are you hosting an event or a family gathering? If so, Courtenay activist Tarah Millen would be more than happy to come pick up your returnable cans and bottles.

A CH-149 Cormorant helicopter and a CC-115 Buffalo were called early last Sunday morning to aid ground search and rescue crews (GSAR) with the extraction of two climbers stranded on a cliff face.

James Denton's name will live on in a bursary being created by his grieving family. The 19-year-old died in hospital after being stabbed on the night of July 23 outside Georges P. Vanier Secondary School, and his parents and younger brother have set up the James Denton Memorial Bursary to honour him and to help someone else pay for a post-secondary education.

Family friend Brian Norman wanted to help honour James Denton, and he has made Justice for James T-shirts featuring a picture of a smiling James.

The Comox Valley Regional District board soundly rejected a motion by Courtenay on Tuesday to reopen a discussion about a homeless shelter in the city. The homeless live in Courtenay, Courtenay asked for help, the CVRD responded by buying downtown property in the city, it’s a Courtenay problem and Courtenay has to deal with it were the core messages delivered to the three Courtenay representatives on the CVRD board.

Following the second public hearing on Bylaw 1684 — the minimum parcel size for subdivision of land in the Point Holmes/Cape Lazo area — in less than a month, council voted to set the minimum parcel size at 0.5 hectares Wednesday night.