Category Archives: Nanaimo
Officials lift boil water advisory in Ladysmith, surrounding area
LADYSMITH - A boil water advisory impacting people in Ladysmith and surrounding area for nearly four days has been lifted.The Town of Ladysmith issued a news released Monday afternoon stating the advi...
Mar 09, 2020 Increased turbidity in the Town of Ladysmith's water supply caused a nearly four-day long boil water advisory (Pixabay)
Province announces first COVID-19 death in Canada, no cases on Vancouver Island
VICTORIA - The first fatality of COVID-19 in Canada has been announced.A man living in a Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver passed away Sunday night from complications related to the coronavir...
Mar 09, 2020 Dr. Bonnie Henry announced more cases of COVID-19 in British Columbia, including the country's first death on Monday, Mar. 9. (CBC)
Bungy jumpers strip away clothes, stigma of mental health struggles
NANAIMO - Clothes, modesty and stigma were among the things shed at a long-standing fundraiser over the weekend south of Nanaimo.The 14th annual Naked Bungy for MHRP (Mental Health Recovery Partners) ...
Mar 09, 2020 Around 88 jumpers took the 150 foot plunge without their clothes at Wildplay, south of Nanaimo. (MHRP)
'Feminism means equality for all:' Nanaimo women and families march through downtown
NANAIMO - Dozens of colourful and clever signs were carried through downtown Nanaimo for the fourth annual women's march. The event, held on International Women's Day, was a chance for supporters to c...
Mar 08, 2020 Michael Oleson and Aurora Allison with their dog Bella showing their support at the Nanaimo Women's March. (Spencer Sterritt/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Departing Nanaimo 7-10 club chef leaving huge pots and pans to fill
NANAIMO - After two years of feeding hundreds of people daily, Linda MacDonald needs a break. The Nanaimo 7-10 Club announced her pending departure as chef and kitchen manager of the meal service on W...
Mar 08, 2020 Linda MacDonald (right) is set to leave her post as chef for Nanaimo's 7-10 Club at the end of March. (submitted/Linda MacDonald)
End of an era: 104-year-old Extension School south of Nanaimo torn down
NANAIMO - A long-closed historic two-room school in the small community of Extension just south of Nanaimo has been flattened and removed.Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools director of communications Da...
Mar 07, 2020 Extension School no longer occupies a small rural lot just off Extension Rd. south of Nanaimo. The tiny two-room school was recently demolished. (Ian Holmes & Alex Rawnsley/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Nanaimo mayor, council crushed by powerful fifth grade challenge
NANAIMO - A power-themed challenge proved decisively that Nanaimo's mayor and council may not be smarter than fifth graders.BC Hydro's community education team presented an energy conservation lesson ...
Mar 06, 2020 Nanaimo's Mayor Leonard Krog stares down the barrel of another correct answer in a power-themed quiz from a Grade 5 student at Departure Bay elementary school on Friday, Mar. 6. (Alex Rawnsley/NanaimoNewsNOW)
'Real change is required:' strategy for Indigenous criminal justice revealed
NANAIMO - A new strategy to reduce the number of Indigenous people caught in the justice system has been unveiled. Douglas White lll Kwul'a'sul'tun, chair of the BC First Nations Justice Council and S...
Mar 06, 2020 Doug White, chair of the BC First Nations Justice Council, announcing a way to create a just justice system. (Spencer Sterritt/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Ladysmith extends boil water advisory for town, surrounding area
LADYSMITH - Officials at the Town of Ladysmith are blaming an unintended release of water for increased levels of turbidity in the town's water supply.A boil water advisory was issued Thursday, Mar. 5...
Mar 06, 2020 Residents in Ladysmith and the surrounding area are under a boil water advisory due to higher than normal turbidity levels. (Freepik)
'Risk still remains very low in our communities:' officials caution against Nanaimo coronavirus panic
NANAIMO - In the wake of eight more confirmed cases of COVID-19 in B.C., provincial health officials are urging caution and measured reactions to a growing global health concern.All the new cases in t...
Mar 06, 2020 The toilet paper aisle at a Nanaimo grocery store is nearly bare as panic over COVID-19 forces people into stockpiling supplies. (Alex Rawnsley/NanaimoNewsNOW)