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The City of Nanaimo is expected to spend $150,000 on a revitalization plan for urban design and public realm improvements on Commercial Street. (News Bulletin file photo)
Nanaimo councillors recommend Commercial Street revitalization

Helicopters fly past the Tremont Creek wildfire as it burns on the mountains above Ashcroft, B.C., on Friday, July 16, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
B.C. says expanding emergency alert for wildfires is a priority, but no timeline set

Richard and Linda Davis hug their grandchildren Miles and Linda Carnegie at their home in Winnipeg, Sunday, July 18, 2021. The couple were able to hug their grandchildren for the first time in fifteen months when Manitoba lifted some COVID-19 restrictions this weekend. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
‘A light at the end of the tunnel’: Canadians hug loved ones in post-vaccine reunions

Walter Fred during Team 700 training on July 21. The Indigenous youth boxing team has started a GoFundMe with a goal to raise $20,000 to continue running the program. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)
Boxing club trying to raise money so Indigenous youths can go more rounds

Beef to the athlete at the local pickleball courts talkin’ all that stuff. No one needs your unsolicited advice on the court. Especially when I’ve been mopping up your kitchen for weeks.
Beefs & Bouquets, July 21

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh holds a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Singh says government must regulate online hate

A woman screams in frustration at Campbell River RCMP members during the procession. Photo by Marc Kitteringham / Campbell River Mirror
VIDEO: Family of slain Indigenous man confront RCMP in Campbell River

Dale Rahim is reunited with his dog Harley, handed to him by Firefighter Shelby Nickel, seconds after the dog was lifted out the Abyss by a Nanaimo Fire Rescue rope rescue team. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)
Firefighter climbs into Nanaimo’s Abyss crevice to rescue another dog that fell in

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It’s Construction Month and time for a hearty round of applause
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Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket sits on a spaceport launch pad near Van Horn, Texas, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. The rocket that is scheduled to launch later this morning will carry passengers Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and space tourism company Blue Origin, his brother Mark Bezos, Oliver Daemen and Wally Funk. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Jeff Bezos alongside youngest, oldest 2 people to ever reach edge of space
The CF Snowbirds air demonstration team flew over Nanaimo Regional General Hospital on Monday, July 19, as part of Operation Inspiration. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)
Snowbirds fly over Nanaimo Regional General Hospital
Researchers at the University of Calgary say a pilot project testing the city’s water is providing a valuable tool in the fight against COVID-19. (Canadian Press screenshot)
VIDEO: ‘Genetic fingerprint’ from wastewater key to tracking COVID-19 outbreaks
Marc Gervais went up and down Chestnut Street in Nanaimo on July 17, in a fundraiser for Nanaimo Child Development Centre. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)
Man cycling up and down street in Nanaimo Child Development Centre fundraiser
Nicole Bennett, Nanaimo BIKES program manager, says the Society for Equity, Inclusion and Advocacy, will have a food bike at Maffeo Sutton Park offering snacks. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)
Nanaimo non-profit hopes food bike hits the right ‘buttons’
Flames attack the hillside in Bonney Lake. (East Pierce Fire & Rescue)
Wildfire season strikes a month early in B.C. with 1,100 blazes to date
Nanaimo’s Michael Suiker is trying to track down family members who might like 10 photo albums he salvaged at an estate sale in 2018. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)
Nanaimo man who once had personal mementos stolen wants to unite family with old photos
Ben Glassen working with turkeys on a farm in the Westwood Road area of Nanaimo. Glassen wants to establish a poultry abattoir on a site on Jingle Pot Road. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)
With meat-processing site numbers dwindling, farmer seeks abattoir in rural Nanaimo
Two hundred and fifteen lights are placed on the lawn outside the Residential School in Kamloops, B.C., on June, 13, 2021. The remains of 215 children were discovered buried near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
VIDEO: More graves could be found at Kamloops residential school site, Tk’emlúps report indicates
Nanaimo man Todd Cameron and his son Jack play with a miniature replica of Schitt’s Creek Cameron made from vintage children’s toys. (Photo courtesy Nicole Cameron)
Nanaimo man builds miniature ‘Schitt’s Creek’ out of vintage children’s toys
Beef to the moving and storage company in a neighbouring city. A ‘free quote’ is not free when you hide behind company policy to refuse to refund a deposit on a moving date 40 days away. We paid $250 for a ‘free quote’ which we promptly declined to accept, and as a result your company will also collect $250 from another customer that weekend.
Beefs & Bouquets, July 14
Two Okanagan Restoration Service employees snuffed a small blaze burning along Highway 97A in Spallumcheen Monday, July 12, 2021. (Okanagan Restoration Services Ltd. - Facebook)
Good Samaritans douse grass fire along North Okanagan highway