Tag Archives: Health
Downtown Nanaimo garbage & needle clean-up program provides purpose and hope
NANAIMO - A new needle and trash clean-up initiative is the opportunity a Nanaimo woman believes will turn her life around.Misty Potzkai, 35, is one of eight people employed through Clean Sweep, an in...
Jan 19, 2020 Misty Potzkai posts a garbage bag to a pole on Wesley St. The Nanaimo woman is chartering a new path in life with help through a part-time job cleaning up garbage and needles in downtown Nanaimo (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Jump!
Things are not always what they seem. Here I am jumping into a pool of water in Costa Rica. Looks like fun, eh? Doesn’t look like a big deal., does it? Now watch this one… To me, this was...
Jan 19, 2020
$300k project aims to stop norovirus outbreak at Van Isle oyster farms
NANAIMO - A new project hopes to prevent anyone from getting sick due to Vancouver Island's delicious oysters.VIU faculty member Dr. Timothy Green is tasked with developing an early-warning detection ...
Jan 17, 2020 New funding hopes to help identify norovirus in the waters along Vancouver Island and stop people from getting sick. (The Canadian Press)
Major decisions on downtown Nanaimo supervised consumption site deferred again
NANAIMO - The issue of evolving downtown Nanaimo's contentious overdose prevention site and easing zoning rules around such facilities is still in bureaucratic limbo. Zoning amendments were asked for ...
Jan 14, 2020 Efforts to turn the overdose prevention site into a supervised consumption site took a small step forward after nearly three years of inaction. (File photo/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Steph on Meditation!
The meditation teacher didn’t give me any change when I paid for my meditation class. When I asked about it, she said the change has to come from within. Lord knows I’ve tried. I keep tryi...
Jan 12, 2020
Unplug your nose! 🏊♀️
Welcome to 2020! I’m excited to re-appreciate all that is going well and to welcome new opportunities, are you? What happened to the man who shoplifted a calendar on New Year’s Eve?He got ...
Jan 05, 2020
VIDEO: Crews complete restoring portion of stairs at Blueback Beach
NANAIMO - An access point to a beloved north Nanaimo beach has been restored.The City of Nanaimo's manager of parks and operations Al Britton said their crews recently completed installing wooden stai...
Jan 04, 2020 The stairs encased into the embankment at the top of the Blueback Beach access point have been replaced. (Ian Holmes/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Alberta reports first severe vaping-related lung illness to Public Health Agency
EDMONTON - Alberta is reporting its first case of a severe vaping-related lung illness. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medical officer of health, says the province is monitoring the situation and ...
Jan 02, 2020
'We're overjoyed:' first-time parents welcome Nanaimo's first baby of 2020
NANAIMO- Thousands of babies are born every year at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, but Nasch Oxler Aguiar is number one. Island Health confirmed Kari Oxler and fiance Graydon Aguiar welcomed Nanai...
Jan 01, 2020 Kari Oxler and Graydon Aguiar welcomed their son Nasch into the world on Jan. 1, 2020 at 3:56 a.m. (Submitted photo)
Nanaimo Hospital Foundation nears fundraising goal for third surgical suite
NANAIMO - A year of extensive fundraising for the Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation is nearing completion.The group set out to raise $1.75 million to fund construction of a new surgical suite a...
Dec 29, 2019 The Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation is fundraising for a third colonoscopy surgical suite at NRGH, in efforts to cut wait times for those needing the procedure. (Nanaimo Hospital Foundation)