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Arts and Culture Week
2008-04-21 02:06:00
The week of April 20 to 26, 2008, has been proclaimed Arts and Culture Week in British Columbia, and among the hundreds of events taking place this week, the Nanaimo Arts Council is presenting Stories for All. Since 2004, writers of all ages have been recognized at the Nanaimo Short Fiction Contest Awards. This year the awards will take place on Friday, April 25, during an evening of readings and

Nanaimo Earth Day 2008
2008-04-20 16:45:00
Nanaimo will celebrate Earth Day 2008 at Bowen Park from 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday, April 26, 2008. There will be live entertainment, guest speakers, demonstrations, information booths, craft displays, and food concessions. Many interesting local groups will have tables promoting globally conscious alternative options for our community. Come out and share in this family event overflowing with
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Departure Bay Neighbourhood Association
2008-04-19 16:15:00
The Departure Bay Neighbourhood Association is having its Annual General Meeting on Thursday, April 24, 2008, from 7 pm to 9 pm at the Kin Hut, Departure Bay Beach, Nanaimo. A presentation and slide show titled “Departure Creek and its Fish Resource” by Charles Thirkill, author of The Nature of Nanaimo, will follow the elections and reports. Refreshments will be served. For more information call

Teachers Introduction to Cuba
2008-04-18 19:39:00
Every summer a select delegation of Canadian teachers is welcomed to Havana and extended a rare glimpse into Cuba n culture and society. They are hosted by island experts in the fields of education, art, and history. While in Cuba they are treated as honored guests. The 2008 Teachers Introduction to Cuba Tour departs on August 2, 2008. Cuba Education Tours and its colleagues in Havana warmly

Truth about the Seal Massacre
2008-04-18 01:28:00
Dr. Inge Bolin of Nanaimo has sent this message to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Dear CBC, We would like to thank you for starting to broadcast the truth about Canada's Seal Massacre . It was refreshing to hear Farley Mowat give his opinion about the atrocities on the Canadian ice that have turned the world against us. It is good to hear honest, brave and wise people like him and Captain
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MGM Seashore Bed and Breakfast
2008-04-17 17:18:00
For a real Vancouver Island experience, it’s hard to beat MGM Seashore Bed and Breakfast , 4950 Fillinger Cres. off Hammond Bay Road in North Nanaimo. True to it’s name, MGM backs onto one of Nanaimo’s most beautiful coastlines with a sweeping view of the Salish Sea. Marilyn and Glenn McKnight built this upscale three-story house themselves in 1997, as you’ll guess from the attention to detail.
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Arms and the Man
2008-04-16 16:39:00
All’s fair in love and war, or is it? The Nanaimo Theatre Group is to present Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw, under the direction of Roger Desprez. Arms and the Man is one of Shaw’s most popular classical comedies, crackling with wit and charm as it illuminates the humour of both heroic and romantic ideals turned on their heads. Though satirizing Victorian mores and hypocrisy, the play

NALT Watershed Progressive Hike
2008-04-15 18:33:00
The Nanaimo and Area Land Trust is sponsoring a shoreline to summit hike on Saturday, April 19, 2008, as part of the Brant Wildlife Festival. The group will hike the Millstone River system to Buttertubs Marsh and Westwood Lake, and from there on up the Westwood Ridges or to the Mount Benson summit. This will be a progressive guided hike through the Millstone River watershed. The hike has been
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Nanaimo Olympic Live Site
2008-04-15 03:47:00
At 1:00 pm on Friday, April 18, 2008, the Olympic Live Site (the Big TV Screen) will be officially opened on Harbourfront Plaza next to the library in downtown Nanaimo. The minister responsible for the Olympics will be there and various politicians will make the usual speeches. Musical entertainment will be supplied by the Nanaimo Blues Society All Stars, beginning at 12:30 pm. If the sun is

Heroic Farley Mowat Seized
2008-04-13 05:21:00
This morning our Coast Guard boarded and seized a Dutch protest vessel of the Gulf of St Lawrence well outside Canada’s twelve mile territorial limit. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society had sent the Farley Mowat into the area to document the slaying of 275,000 baby seals currently underway on the ice flows off Newfoundland. This seizure in international waters is intended to hide the truth

Summer and the Sinners
2008-04-12 17:11:00
Summer and the Sinners will be appearing at The Queens, 34 Victoria Cres., Nanaimo, on April 18 and 19, 2008. If you miss them there, they’ll be at Tania’s Downtown, 75 Front St., Nanaimo, on May 17, 2008.
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