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Student Life: Connections affect lives

Student Life: Connections affect lives

It can’t be stressed enough just how important the connections we make throughout our lives really are. Even on that very first day of school, the friends we make can have a huge impact on us for the rest of our lives.
Let's Talk Trash: Mushrooms eat plastic

Let's Talk Trash: Mushrooms eat plastic

Believe it or not, a new superhero has landed on planet earth – one who is saving lives, cleaning up our messes, and even neutralizing toxic waste. Well, truth be told, this hero arrived 1.
Bernard The German, chapter 10 (part one): The paradise

Bernard The German, chapter 10 (part one): The paradise

The tragic tale of the giant of Desolation Sound
Support and advice via postcards from Powell River

Support and advice via postcards from Powell River

With Love From Powtown offers opportunity to give and receive heartfelt words
Powell River performance postponed due to weather

Powell River performance postponed due to weather

Beverley Elliott’s award-winning one-woman show will now happen in May
CarbonWise: Rising cost of climate change

CarbonWise: Rising cost of climate change

As the predicted impacts of climate change become a reality in the form of extreme weather-related disasters, the true costs to our cities and towns come sharply into focus.
Around Powell River: Community listings

Around Powell River: Community listings

Here are the events, meetings and other happenings coming up around Powell River: Saturday, February 9 Lang Bay Hall hosts a crib tournament at 10 am; doors open at 9:30 am, Saturday, February 9. Cost is $15 per player and lunch is provided.
Food for thought

Food for thought

Nichole Strickland [left] and Melissa Sloos, owners of Coast Fitness, donated the basket they won for a door prize (from Safeway) at Powell River Chamber of Commerce Business Awards to Apple A Day, a local non-profit that provides food to families in
Let's Talk Trash: Plastic under the microscope

Let's Talk Trash: Plastic under the microscope

It’s time we take a closer look at plastic. A microscopic look. Plastic, by its very nature breaks down, and since its invention in the 1950s, plastic has been doing just that – and doing it everywhere.
PROWLS: Rescue of the week

PROWLS: Rescue of the week

Injured hawk recovers Powell River Orphaned Wildlife Society before trip to Delta