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Just a little outside

Just a little outside

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.

Eat salmon and talk turkey at annual barbecue

Community Futures Mount Waddington is hosting a barbecue in a fashion as North Island as it gets.
Remodelled digs bring a tear and smiles

Remodelled digs bring a tear and smiles

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.

Climate Change and Forests — how to prepare?

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.
Two Birds, no power

Two Birds, no power

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 puts the fun in Fall Fair

Port Alice puts the fun in Fall Fair

PORT ALICE - Annual Mount Waddington Regional Fall Fair features fun, food, entertainment and prizes
Alert Bay man newest Hazelton RCMP

Alert Bay man newest Hazelton RCMP

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.
Class is now in session

Class is now in session

North Island youth return to school this week.

Hooking a whopper

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.
More than old bones at local museum

More than old bones at local museum

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.