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Cowichan News Leader and Pictorial

Sharing the wealth

Dirk Nagtegaal cares, truly cares, about people. So, when the 54-year-old married dad of four children and granddad to two was casting about for a business to take him into retirement, he knew it must… more
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Cowichan News Leader and Pictorial

Slopestyle an info-filled ride for snow hounds

Snowriding movie director Chris Jaycox is already waxing his pitch for his Slopestyle TV series that starts airing Nov. 29 on Channel 54. “It’ll air every Saturday all snow season,” the native Shawnig… more
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Christmas Express on track on forest museum

An island yuletide tradition is well on track at the B.C. Forest Discovery Centre that’s stoking its 2008 Christmas Express for Dec. 5. “We get people from Courtenay, Campbell River, and tons from Vi… more
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Surviving the holidays

“It’s the best time of the year,” if the Christmas carols are to be believed. But no matter how much tinsel you decorate… more
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Giving back to the givers

Caregivers do exactly what their name implies. The Cowichan Family Caregivers Support Society, meanwhile, aims to give a… more
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For homework: help out the homeless

As part of a class project, Dianne Wilbee and Sheila Johansen are collecting items to help out Cowichan’s homeless popul… more
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Enough food to fill a motor home

The Royal Bank in Duncan and Big Boy’s Toys RV are hoping to drop off a big load of food to local food banks with a new … more
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Lourdess comes home

After a battle with leukemia that spanned more than two years, little Lourdess Sumners is back home in Cowichan. Lourdes… more
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Chemainus' new 3-D mural won't be finished until spring

Completion of Chemainus’ new Emily Carr’s Beloved Trees mural won’t happen until around Easter, Festival Of Murals’ spo… more
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Food basket's Betty Anne Devitt named Kiwanis' citizen of the year

Food-basket boss Betty Anne Devitt sure had the wool pulled over her eyes Wednesday during a ruse to name her the Kiwani… more
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