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Last year, the BC Farmers Market Nutrition Coupon Program (FMNCP) provided $27,405 to Courtenay. In turn, the Comox Valley Family Services Association Healthy Families Program provided coupons to lower-income pregnant women, and to families and seniors, to purchase fruit, vegetables and other products at the local market.

Council members worked with two youth on resolutions for community’s future

The Comox Valley RCMP, in consult with Courtenay council, has identified crime reduction as one of six community priority issues for the city.

Its plan includes steps such as heritage mapping to preserve Indigenous heritage sites

Following a Comox Valley Regional District board resolution, Area A director Daniel Arbour has decided to throw his hat in the ring for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) board of directors. The election is June 2.

The Comox Valley Regional District began the 2021 financial planning process in the summer of 2020 under the Rethink Comox Valley lens, which the board endorsed in the spring to direct a review of all 98 services provided by the CVRD to consider how each had been impacted by COVID-19.

Most satisfied with district’s pandemic response, though have mixed feelings about class set-ups

Courtenay council gave the green light Monday to allow the Connect Warming Centre (685 Cliffe Ave.) to continue operating as an emergency overnight shelter from April 1-30. The licence had originally expired at the end of March, but BC Housing secured funding for another month during the provincial state of emergency.

Island’s top public health officer calling for return to practices that achieved a flat curve

Friday afternoon motorists were greeted by people with signs at the corner of 17th and Cliffe — repeating the scene the previous Friday (March 19) during Forest March BC.