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Snow to begin Saturday night, according to Environment Canada

Island Health points to seniors care to reduce demand at acute care sites

The Wachiay Friendship Centre hopes to turn its parking lot at 17th and McPhee into a five-storey wood frame building with 40 living units. Pending the outcome of an application to BC Housing, the suites will be studio and one-bedroom units.

More training opportunities for health care assistants at North Island College will strengthen the level of care for people in long-term care and assisted living residences, say Ronna-Rae Leonard, New Democrat MLA for Courtenay-Comox, and Michele Babchuk, New Democrat MLA for North Island.

The incentive is just one of many steps community looking at to protect older sites

In a Monday presentation to Courtenay council, the LUSH Valley Food Action Society requested $100,000 to help restart the Good Food Box Program for Vulnerable Citizens. The group hopes the money could be provided through government鈥檚 Safe Restart funding program.

Courtenay council adopted a bylaw to allow Habitat for Humanity to construct 12 homes at 1375 Piercy Ave. The project will consist of a trio of four-unit townhomes.

If a 6th Street multi-use bridge ever comes into fruition, the Comox Valley Cycling Coalition hopes it will be widened a little further than what鈥檚 being proposed.

Option is not available for some local schools because of capacity issues

The Comox Valley Regional District, in partnership with the City of Courtenay, Town of Comox, Village of Cumberland and K鈥櫭砿oks First Nation, has launched a survey looking at poverty reduction within the region.