Tag Archives: People

VIDEO: Clippers building chemistry and strong habits during playoff push
NANAIMO - The Clippers are enjoying their best run of play in the BCHL season with six consecutive wins. It started on Jan. 25 with a 3-2 overtime win in Powell River and includes two victories over V...
Feb 12, 2025

Driver charged following death of pedestrian at Walmart parking lot
NANAIMO - A charge has been approved following the death of an elderly woman at a north Nanaimo parking lot. Jazmin Faye Patenaude, 24, is charged with dangerous driving causing death in connection to...
Feb 11, 2025

Mounties cleared after man dies in hospital shortly after arrest in Parksville
PARKSVILLE - Oceanside RCMP officers have been cleared of any wrongdoing after the death of a man in their custody in 2023.Mounties were called to the Summer by the Sea Street Market along Craig St. o...
Feb 11, 2025

Unique weigh scale aims to gain insight on Vancouver Island marmots
NANAIMO - Researchers are getting creative to learn more about how weight impacts the health of the resurgent Vancouver Island marmot population. A pair of Vancouver Island University technicians have...
Feb 10, 2025

VIDEO: Passionate Nanaimo historian concludes impactful career
NANAIMO - Possessing an encyclopedic knowledge of Nanaimo's past and undeniable charm, a leading local history buff is calling it a career.However, she's not going quickly, or quietly for that matter....
Feb 10, 2025

Hull shines in Clipper victory with two goals including the OT winner
NANAIMO - The Clippers winning streak is up to six after a 6-5 overtime win versus the Langley Rivermen.The game went through many twists and turns but Langley had only one lead, when they got a goal ...
Feb 08, 2025

Island Top Team athletes compete in all-female jiu-jitsu event
NANAIMO - Island Top Team, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu academy in Nanaimo, recently sent two students to a women's only jiu-jitsu event in Bellingham called Battle Grappling.Laya Walker and Sarah Kolybaba t...
Feb 08, 2025

Housing to dominate Qualicum Beach OCP process
QUALICUM BEACH - Creating more housing units for anticipated growth factors heavily into an ongoing public engagement campaign in Qualicum Beach. A Quality of Life Survey in effect since mid-January a...
Feb 08, 2025

Nixon's 42 save performance backstops Clippers in win over Grizzlies
COLWOOD - The Clippers earned their first shutout of the season and won their fifth straight game with a 5-0 road victory over the Victoria Grizzlies on Friday, Feb. 7.Chazz Nixon stood tall in the Cl...
Feb 07, 2025

Charges laid following multiple Oceanside residential break and enters
NANAIMO - A man is accused of breaking into five additional Oceanside area homes after being originally charged with one local residential break-in late last year. New charges against Timothy Joseph D...
Feb 07, 2025