Community

David Mitchell mans the grill while Christie Dreger ladles onions on Chris Patterson’s salmon burger during the Community Futures Mount Waddington barbecue to benefit the Gazette Hamper Fund Friday. The event raised $450 for the Hamper Fund.

B.C. Rivers Day was celebrated Sunday at the Quatse Salmon Stewardship Centre and Campground in Port Hardy. Liv Humphrey paints a salmon as part of the kids’ salmon-stamping art project.

The second largest animal to ever live on the planet made a surprise visit to our waters recently.

Even granite-grey skies that bombarded the earth with buckets of water over the weekend did nothing to dampen the spirits of North Islanders who got their first glimpse of the 2011 Canadian Cancer Society Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock riders.

Members of the RAF’s 101 Squadron got together with the Canadian Rangers and members of the Port McNeill and Port Hardy Junior Rangers Saturday to mark the Second World War’s Battle of Britain, the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces.

The B.C. Thanksgiving Food Drive collected close to a ton of food during the inaugural event.

Forestry is embedded in our culture on the North Island and whether you enjoy the forests for hiking and exploring, work in forestry, or grew up surrounded by the forest, it is close to your heart in some way.

The Rolling Stone’s Keith Richards says in his recent memoir there are two institutional places that most powerfully affect youngsters.

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.