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PORT ALICE - Missoula Children's Theatre teams with local youth to present Wiz of the West, a new spin on a beloved tale.

Eagleview School teacher, Sean Barfoot, gives encouragement to Luke Gage during a recent after-school trip to local waters where six students in the school’s fishing club learned the fine art of landing a whopper. Incidentally, the club is looking for donations of rods, reels, lures, flies, fly-tying equipment, and basically anything fishing related. Interested donors can email sbarfoot@sd85.bc.ca.

PORT HARDY - Barbecue and tours part of orientation at North Island College's remodeled local campus

Port Alice - Local youth to present two show Saturday with touring theatre troupe

James Emerson, president of the Port Hardy Chamber of Commerce, hands Steve Lacasse, chair of the Northern Vancouver Island Salmoid Enhancement Association, a cheque for $500, part of the $2,500 winnings for placing third in the World Fishing Network’s Ultimate Fishing Town Canada contest.

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.