Community

It’s been an exciting start to Canada Day 2011 with Quality Foods once again coming on board with a $12,500 donation. Having the City of Campbell River match that donation and Lucas Olsen of West Coast Tug and Barge’s donation of $10,000 will make this year’s Festival of Lights Fireworks more spectacular than ever. In the picture (from left), Quality Foods (QF) manager Cyriel Debruyne, the Canada Day organizing committee’s Carol Chapman and Mayor Charlie Cornfield mark the QF donation.

School District 72 is co-sponsoring a “Going for Green” contest open to the entire community

Campbell River Adult Care Society provides love and care

The Community Centre will be decked out with memorabilia this Saturday to commemorate 10 years of Community Centre service in Campbell River

Members of the Campbell River Junior Stamp Club from Penfield and Georgia Park elementary schools attended the 50+ Stamp Club’s monthly meeting Feb. 17.

Recognize those people who give freely of their time

Noon Hour Rotary Club president-elect Patricia Gagnon (left), Mayor Charlie Cornfield (centre) and Campbell River Daybreak Rotary Club president Craig Gillis raised the Rotary flag on Wednesday at City Hall after the mayor proclaimed Feb. 23 as End Polio Now Day. On Rotary's 106th birthday, they are celebrating the worldwide organizations efforts to virtually eliminate polio.

Donations are still being accepted

A newly-completed bridge is the finishing touch on the Greenways Land Trust’s latest trail.