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• What’s On, July 22

  22-07-2026 20:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  MUSIC
  Destroyer will be playing on July 22 with Hush Pup and on July 23 with Atticus Mercredi at 8 p.m. at The Vault Cafe. Tickets are available at gigpit.ca.
  Kellie Loder will be playing on July 23 at the Ladybug’s Mew in Yellow Point Farm and Garden Store Concert Stage. Tickets are $28 and the show will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at www.ladybugsmewinyellowpoint.ca.
  Carolyn Mark and Naomi Shore will be playing on July 23 at The Vault Cafe at 9 p.m. The Queen of Vancouver Island
  
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• Snuneymuxw members on reserve will be able to vote in next municipal election

  22-07-2026 23:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Members of Snuneymuxw First Nation living on reserve lands will be able to vote for Nanaimo’s council and mayor for the first time in this fall’s municipal election.
  A joint request from Snuneymuxw First Nation and the city to expand Nanaimo’s municipal boundary to include Snuneymuxw reserve lands has received final approval from the province.
  An Order in Council approving the boundary change was signed by B.C.’s Lieutenant Governor Wendy Cocchia on Friday, July 17.
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• Valerie Lynn Mason

  22-07-2026 22:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  In Loving Memory ~
  June 29, 1944 – June 27, 2026
  It is with great sorrow and sadness the family of Valerie Mason announces her passing after a brief illness.
  Born in Lethbridge, AB to parents Melvin and Elnora Sabey, Valerie was raised in Nanaimo, with her older siblings, on the much-loved family farm in Yellow Point.
  In 1962, prior to graduating from NDSS, Val was a candidate in the Miss Nanaimo Pageant and was recognized as a 2nd Princess Finalist. Val then went on to attend business sch
  
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• Teresa Mary Patricia “Pat” Cowie

  22-07-2026 22:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  1939-2025Please join us for a Celebration of Life to honour Pat’s legacy together, as we share stories, music, photos and memories. Refreshments will be served. Sunday August 9th, 2026, from 2-4pm. Nanaimo Golf Club, 2800 Highland Blvd
  
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• Pearl Yuill (nee Kostur)

  22-07-2026 22:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Our mom, Pearl Yuill (nee Kostur), passed away just over 2 years ago – on June 23rd, 2024 – at the age of 87. We miss her deeply, every day. Pearl was predeceased by her parents Sam and Lena, brothers John and Matt; and in December 2023 by her husband Harvey, to whom she was married for over 60 years. She is survived by her son Craig (Linda), grandchildren Jessica and Desiree, and daughter Karla and her partner Bob. Pearl is also survived by her sister Mary (Ron) and brother Harry.
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• Norene Ann Oliver

  22-07-2026 22:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  In Loving Memory
  10 July, 1956 – 18 June, 2026
  Norene Ann Oliver (Johnson) born July 10, 1956, of Nanaimo, British Columbia, passed away peacefully on June 18, 2026, at Dufferin Place in Nanaimo.
  Norene is survived by her loving husband of 26 years, Marv, whom she always referred to as “her guy”, her daughter Sheena (Richard) and their three children, Nathan, Amber and Grace of Nanaimo and her stepdaughter, Angie, of Victoria.
  Norene was born in Edmonton to (pre-deceased) paren
  
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• Armand Malenfant

  22-07-2026 22:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Armand Malenfant, Dad, passed away peacefully on June 26, 2026, at the NRGH Palliative Care unit.
  Dad was a man of vibrant passions. He had a great eye for antiques, loved old cars and took immense pride in dressing well. He loved to cook (especially seafood), was an avid letter writer, an incredible crib player and someone who could talk to anyone about absolutely anything for hours. He especially loved chatting about his most cherished memories. He shared the story of running a chip wagon on t
  
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• Best of the City voting has started

  22-07-2026 22:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The final voting round for the Nanaimo News Bulletin’s Best of the City Awards 2026 has begun.
  The voting round ends on Aug. 9 and the finalist with the most votes in each category in the newspaper’s long-running annual community survey will be crowned Best of the City.
  Nominations in each category took place from June 13 to July 5, and the top nominees in each category have now advanced to the final voting round.
  The winners will be officially published on Wednesday, Sept. 30.
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• UPDATE: Missing 4-year-old B.C. boy found safe, amber alert cancelled

  22-07-2026 21:24 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  UPDATE 12:13 p.m.
  The missing four-year-old boy has been found safe, say the RCMP.
  The amber alert was cancelled at 12:07 p.m. on Wednesday, July 22.
  RCMP haven’t released any other details at this time.
  Black Press Media has reached out to West Kelowna RCMP for more information.
  UPDATE: 12:30 a.m.
  RCMP in Langley previously reported four-year-old missing on July 16.
  Police say the four-year-old was believed to be with his mother, Alisse Andrews, and that they were last seen on July 15.
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• Controversial Vancouver Island slide returns for a third time

  22-07-2026 20:20 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  It’s the Colwood saga that’s had more twists and turns than your average movie trilogy.
  Colwood’s controversial “roller-coaster” slide is back, back, back again for the third, and hopefully, final time.
  After being removed twice before because of safety concerns, the metal spiral tube slide returned July 21, crew members busy at work reattaching it to Quarry Park’s three-level castle.
  The City of Colwood said the playground provider has modified the slope and
  
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• WorkSafeBC warns employers to protect workers from heat stress, heat stroke

  22-07-2026 20:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  WorkSafeBC has issued a bulletin to remind employers that they must protect their workers from heat-related illnesses as Environment Canada issues heat alerts.
  This applies to staffers working inside and outside.
  Todd McDonald, WorkSafeBC’s head of prevention services, warned that higher temperatures by nature increase the risk of heat stress and heat stroke, “which can be serious and even life-threatening.
  “These illnesses are preventable, and employers have a responsibility t
  
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• United Way seeks donations for B.C. wildfire recovery fund

  22-07-2026 20:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  United Way BC is putting the call out for financial donations to help the thousands of people in B.C. currently under wildfire evacuation orders and alerts.
  People are being asked to donate to the United for BC Wildfire Recovery Fund which provides immediate and long-term support for nearly 10,000 people in several communities affected by about 90 wildfires province-wide.The fund provides assistance not only during emergencies, but throughout the months and years of recovery that follow. Donatio
  
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• Tour de Rock rider rallies Island support ahead of 1,400-km journey

  22-07-2026 20:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Waking up on a Sunday morning and heading to a gruelling, sweat-soaked spin class set to a soundtrack of Olivia Rodrigo hits and country classics may not be everyone’s idea of fun. But for Tour de Rock rider and Black Press Media reporter Tony Trozzo, it’s exactly that.
  Two months before setting off on a 1,400-kilometre journey across Vancouver Island, Trozzo was surrounded by friends, family and supporters during a fundraising spin class to help raise money for pediatric cancer rese
  
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• Stranded orca swims free after Salish Sea beaching southeast of B.C capital

  22-07-2026 19:56 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A young Bigg’s killer whale found itself high and dry after becoming stranded on a Salish Sea beach, roughly 70 kilometres southeast of Greater Victoria.
  Members of the Pacific Whale Watch Association spotted the whale, identified as T65B2 ‘Corvus’, south of the border, beached between Smith and Minor islands in the Strait of Juan de Fuca on July 16.
  The organization suspects the seven-year-old orca misjudged the outgoing tide while hunting, accidentally stranding itself.
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• ‘Making an impact’: Charity cyclists gift $100K to Victoria General Hospital

  22-07-2026 19:50 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  What started as two friends chasing a dream to cycle across Canada has grown into a coast-to-coast fundraising powerhouse, with its latest stop bringing a $100,000 donation to Victoria General Hospital.
  Canada Cycles for Kids (CCFK) presented the Victoria Hospitals Foundation with the gift Tuesday (July 21), funding four bedside fetal monitors for the Labour, Delivery and Recovery Unit (LDR).
  The unit sees about 3,000 babies born each year from across the Island. The team of 12 riders arrived at
  
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• Vancouver Island experts urge residents to co-exist with deer

  22-07-2026 19:01 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  It’s that time of year when mother deer and their newborn fawns become more active on Vancouver Island.
  Wildlife experts are urging residents to slow down, remove hazardous garden netting and give deer more space as collisions and entanglements increase. Recently, there have been several instances where deer have been run over by speeding vehicles, and cases of entanglements have increased in many parts of the region.As fawns who were born in spring grow stronger through the summer, they b
  
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• Man dead in North Vancouver RCMP shooting after he allegedly got into police vehicle

  22-07-2026 18:22 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A man is dead in a police shooting in North Vancouver Tuesday and B.C.’s police watchdog, the Independent Investigations Office of B.C., is now investigating.North Vancouver RCMP responded to reports of a man with an edged weapon allegedly threatening people in a business at Westview Plaza in the 2600-block of Westview Drive around 1:12 p.m. on July 21.
  He then exited the business and allegedly entered a vehicle in the parking lot and collided with multiple parked vehicles, B.C. RCMP said
  
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• Wildfires close portions of Highway 1, 3

  22-07-2026 18:19 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Closures to portions of Highway 1 and 3 remain in effect on Wednesday morning (July 22) due to wildfires near Boston Bar and Manning Park respectively.
  Highway 1 is closed for a 41.2-kilometre stretch between Hell’s Gate and Boston Bar
  According to Drive BC, the wildfire burning north of Hells Gate is in close proximity to the highway. The new wildfire is south of the Ainslie Creek and Brunswick Creek wildfires.
  Meanwhile, Highway 3 is closed between Sunshine Valley and Manning Park due to
  
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• Nanaimo will contribute $75,000 towards an affordable housing pilot project

  22-07-2026 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The city will contribute $75,000 to the Nanaimo Prosperity Corporation as part of an effort to increase the number of affordable-housing units in the municipality, but some council members have expressed reservations.
  At the council meeting on Monday, July 20, Coun. Tyler Brown said he strongly opposes committing the funding to an initiative which would see up to 400 non-market housing units sold at 40 per cent below market value within the next two years as part of a pilot project.
  He said he a
  
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• Amber Alert activated for 4-year-old boy reportedly taken by mother from West Kelowna

  22-07-2026 08:19 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  UPDATE: 12:30 a.m.
  RCMP in Langley previously reported four-year-old Ryan Atlas Andrews (Atlas) missing on July 16.
  Police say Atlas was believed to be with his mother, Alisse Andrews, and that they were last seen on July 15.
  No Amber Alert was issued at this time.
  However, on Monday, July 20, RCMP issued a statement that Atlas Andrews was found safe.
  Then on July 22, BC RCMP activated a province-wide Amber Alert for the boy, reporting Alisse Andrews to be the suspect in the child’s disapp
  
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• More evacuation orders as new fire near Boston Bar grows to 1,000 hectares

  22-07-2026 08:05 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  UPDATE 11 p.m.
  The new fire south of Boston Bar discovered on Tuesday (July 21) has grown to 1,000 hectares, and the Fraser Valley Regional District has expanded evacuation orders and alerts in the area.
  The fire — V11090 — continues to spread rapidly.An evacuation order has been issued for properties south of Boston Bar on the east side of the river, on Scuzzy Creek FSR on the west side of the river, and for Hell’s Gate on Highway 1. An evacuation alert has been issued for pro
  
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• Amber Alert activated for 4 year old boy reportedly taken by mother from West Kelowna

  22-07-2026 07:19 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  An Amber Alert is being issued to locate a four-year-old boy reported missing from West Kelowna on July 21.
  RCMP are investigating the parental abduction of Atlas Andrews and issued the alert just after midnight on July 22.Ryan Atlas Andrews (Atlas) is described as:
  * Age: four years old
  * Hair: Brown
  * Eyes: Hazel
  * Race: Caucasian* Descriptors: 3 feet tall and 51 pounds
  Police are also looking for Alisse Andrews who is described as:
  • Age: 40-years-old• Hair: Brown
  • Eyes: Brown
  
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• Witness testifies to seeing Khan murder suspect in SUV on Nanaimo road

  22-07-2026 03:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The man charged in the shooting and killing Yasin Khan in 2021 was spotted on a rural road off Nanaimo Parkway the day of the murder, a witness testified.
  Ronald Joseph Campbell, 42 when charged with first-degree murder in 2024, is on trial in B.C. Supreme Court in Nanaimo in relation to the death of Khan, who was shot and killed at the parking lot of Wendy’s on May 20, 2021.
  In their opening argument on Monday, July 20, Nick Barber and Gregory Furmaniuk, Crown counsel, said evidence will
  
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• Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee MP vocal over provincial strategy ‘failures’

  22-07-2026 02:04 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  As the Member of Parliament (MP) for Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee, Scott Anderson vows not to stay silent because issues may fall under another level of government.
  Standing in front of Vernon city council Monday, July 20, Anderson – who served from 2014 to 2022 as a Vernon councillor before losing the 2022 mayoral election to Victor Cumming – said he’ll speak up when provincial or municipal decisions affect the people he now represents.
  And he spoke loud.
  Appearing before coun
  
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• Island Health warns of measles in Nanaimo

  22-07-2026 02:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Island Health has confirmed a single measles case in the Nanaimo region.
  Island Health Public Health is following up directly with individuals who are known to have been exposed to the case at specific locations.
  In a press release issued on Tuesday, July 21, Island Health stated that the risk to the broader public is considered low.
  However, if someone was at a number of locations during certain times, they may have been exposed to measles.
  This includes Woodgrove Centre on July 12 between 12 p
  
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• ‘Not a chance in hell’ that B.C. is putting U.S. liquor back on shelves: Eby

  22-07-2026 01:44 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Premier David Eby is standing firm on his government’s decision to keep American alcohol products off B.C. Liquor Store shelves.
  “There is not a chance in hell that U.S. alcohol is going back on the shelf in British Columbia – and I’m proud of that and I know that British Columbians support that.”
  Eby was in Charlottetown Tuesday for the beginning of a three-day meeting of the Council of the Federation with other provincial and territorial leaders and Prime Minister
  
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• Nanaimo is looking for its next poet laureate

  22-07-2026 01:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Nanaimo is inviting applications for the position of poet laureate for the 2027–2029 term.
  Serving as the city’s literary ambassador, the poet laureate raises the profile of literary arts in Nanaimo by creating and presenting poetic works and activities that reflect the community.The successful candidate will engage and inspire residents, while collaborating with community partners to celebrate the power of poetry.
  Since the program was established in 2014, the city’s poet laur
  
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• B.C. forgives legal debts of staffer involved in 2013 ‘quick wins’ scandal

  22-07-2026 00:47 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  B.C. will forgive most of the $460,000 legal debt incurred by former communications staffer Brian Bonney defending himself for his part in the “quick wins” scandal that engulfed Christy Clark’s B.C. Liberal government in 2013, according to the Finance Ministry.
  The scandal centred around a multiculturalism outreach plan that was found to have inappropriately used government resources for partisan purposes.
  There were staff resignations, and John Yap stepped down from a minister
  
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• Abbotsford entrepreneurs represent B.C. at G20 summit

  22-07-2026 00:20 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Dozens of entrepreneurs from across the country will be heading to Austria later this year to try to spark worldwide economic growth.
  A total of 40 young business leaders make up this year’s Canadian delegation for the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance (YEA) Summit.
  Among them are Abbotsford’s Janine Jivani and Saboor Meherzad, who make up half of the entire B.C. representation.
  This group was put together by entrepreneurial support non-profit Futurpreneur, which is one of the
  
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• 600 B.C. properties under evacuation order, 5,700 under alerts amid wildfires

  22-07-2026 00:17 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  More than 33,000 lightning strikes across B.C. last week has led to an increase in the number of active wildfires in the province.There are 87 active wildfires, including four that started in the last 24 hours, as of Tuesday morning (July 21). Twenty-four were declared out in the same period, Forests Minister Ravi Parmar said in a provincial wildfire and drought update.
  Parmar said the forecast is showing more “challenging weather” ahead, with hot, dry conditions and limited rain in
  
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