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Well-known children's entertainers Bobs and Lolo are bringing their catchy, Earth-friendly songs to Comox this Saturday.

The Comox Valley RCMP have been kept busy responding to numerous files in the Black Creek area over the past couple of months.

There's quality and there's quantity. The 17th annual Vancouver Island MusicFest had both.

Comox Valley RCMP are investigating a suspicious fire that occurred during the evening of July 1 at a storage facility at Piercy Road and 29th Street in Courtenay.

Every spring for the past few years, the St. Joseph's General Hospital Foundation has sent out a spring mailing appealing for donations to help purchase new equipment for the hospital. It is a major fundraiser, but this spring, the campaign hit a bit of a snag when postal workers were locked out and donations stopped coming in.

Local Chamber of Commerce members and Downtown Courtenay Business Improvement Association representatives took a firsthand look last week at a pair of emergency shelters during a bus tour that stopped at the New Hope Centre in Nanaimo and Warmland House in the Cowichan Valley.

A fire started Sunday at about 5 p.m. in the engine compartment of this southbound vehicle on Highway 19 in the vicinity of Bowser.

Government urged to 'step back' to ensure independence

Members of Comox Valley Ground Search and Rescue, still shaken after a volunteer drowned July 29 during a retrieval mission near Creston, worked round the clock last week with two major searches and three rescues in six days.

Sarah Bailey, an early childhood educator at Puddleduck Daycare, shared this thought during the Canada Day parade that is as valid now as it was then.