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Peer Assisted Care Teams respond to some mental health crises events in B.C. communities. The Canadian Mental Health Association will soon fund teams in three new communities. The City of Courtenay has applied. (CMHA North & West Vancouver Branch/Facebook)

Courtenay wants a team to deal with mental health and substance use crises

Businesses and residents asking for help, number of homeless increased: report

Peer Assisted Care Teams respond to some mental health crises events in B.C. communities. The Canadian Mental Health Association will soon fund teams in three new communities. The City of Courtenay has applied. (CMHA North & West Vancouver Branch/Facebook)
Milo Judd plays in the family’s garden, holding a toy that matched the size of his body when he was born. (Connor McDowell/Comox Valley Record)

Born weighing two pounds, toddler Milo now an Island child development ambassador

Comox Valley Child Development Association announces ambassador family

Milo Judd plays in the family’s garden, holding a toy that matched the size of his body when he was born. (Connor McDowell/Comox Valley Record)
Thrifters discover a trove of art belonging to late artist Victor Reece in an abandoned storage locker 13 years after his passing. (Photo submitted)

TV show finds trove of art belonging to late father of Comox Valley woman

The collection was slated for a Richmond garbage dump when “pickers” found it

Thrifters discover a trove of art belonging to late artist Victor Reece in an abandoned storage locker 13 years after his passing. (Photo submitted)
Coun. David Frisch and his wife Chantal enter the Comox Valley Regional District headquarters. A group of protesters stands by, with placards calling for his resignation. (Connor McDowell/Comox Valley Record)

Group gathers outside Courtenay council meeting to protest David Frisch’s choice to stay

Council has demanded Frisch’s resignation ‘based on his conduct’

Coun. David Frisch and his wife Chantal enter the Comox Valley Regional District headquarters. A group of protesters stands by, with placards calling for his resignation. (Connor McDowell/Comox Valley Record)
Researchers are looking to discarded fruit for a source of electrical energy. (Black press files)

UBCO researchers try to generate electricity from discarded fruit

Team at school of engineering feeds scraps to microbes

Researchers are looking to discarded fruit for a source of electrical energy. (Black press files)
Cash and illicit drugs are photographed by B.C. police after seizing roughly 2kg of street drugs and roughly $70,000 in cash in the first three months of 2023. (Photo CFSEU-BC)

Drugs, weapons and cash seized in provincewide police initiative to disrupt gang crime

Anti-gang police team seizes drugs, cash and weapons from across the province

Cash and illicit drugs are photographed by B.C. police after seizing roughly 2kg of street drugs and roughly $70,000 in cash in the first three months of 2023. (Photo CFSEU-BC)