Community

Port McNeill’s Shelley Downey watches as her long putt heads toward the ninth hole during Saturday’s golf tourney to benefit the Tour de Rock Cops For Cancer ride later this month.

Community Futures Mount Waddington is hosting a barbecue in a fashion as North Island as it gets.

PORT ALICE — It was easy enough to pick out the happiest person at the grand opening ceremony for this village’s newly remodeled community centre Saturday afternoon.

Everyone knows our forests are influenced by the environment — especially temperature and rainfall. And while there are some swirling debates around the cause, there’s no doubt our world is experiencing a period of climatic change.

Tim Bird, of Family Place, an office that shares a building with the North Island Gazette on Market Street, holds a wee starling that had the misfortune to either knock into, or sit on a power wire. The contact fried the bird and knocked out power to the building for most of Monday.

PORT ALICE - Annual Mount Waddington Regional Fall Fair features fun, food, entertainment and prizes

The New Hazelton RCMP have added a few new faces to their detachment over the past few months and one of them is Const. Keith Lansdowne from Alert Bay.

North Island youth return to school this week.

Steve Lacasse, chair of the Northern Vancouver Island Salmonid Enhancement Association, snags a cheque from Fenton Williams, assistant manager of Port Hardy’s Coastal Community Credit Union.

While the curator of the Port Hardy Museum & Archives warns there’s only about a month left to see the fossils exhibit, she wants folks to know there’s much more to see at the museum.