Oceanside BC Canada

The City of Parksville has confirmed there is no intention of including prayers at its inaugural meeting after the next municipal election in 2026, according to a news release by the city.

Arrowsmith Naturalists are expecting up to 200 delegates representing around 50 naturalist clubs from across the province.

St. Andrews Lodge in Qualicum Beach was an accommodation for vacationers that opened in 1938 and was run for 80 years by Simon Mure Little and his family.

Aquila Cedar Products Ltd., a wood products manufacturer in Parksville, is set to receive upwards of $879,000 for new equipment and a retrofit of its location, to produce higher-grade wood products.

“This funding allows us to create 20 jobs as a result of upgrading our manufacturing equipment and increasing our production facility to introduce a new line of high-quality timber products,” Mak Chimayt, CEO, Aquila Cedar Products Ltd., said.

data presented to council by a Parksville Qualicum Beach Tourism Association’s consultant recently showed approximately 116 short-term vacation rentals are operating in town
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Once the new law takes effect, the town’s STVRs will dramatically decrease to approximately 20

“The 2015 decision by the Supreme Court in Saguenay, (QC), prohibits municipal councils from including prayer in their meetings and in the last two inaugural meetings, in 2018 and 2022, Parksville has included prayers, overtly religious prayers, in their inaugural meetings and that’s a violation of the constitution,” said Teale Phelps Bondaroff, the research coordinator with the BC Humanist Association.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/19586835

Aerial spray treatments for invasive months coming to Vancouver Island

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17556004

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Islanders - this is a podcast for you. Life on Vancouver Island isn’t all sunset strolls and forest bathing - it can be frustrating, isolating, and expensive. We're going to talk about the good, the bad, and everything in between. Hosted by Kathryn Marlow, every Tuesday.

Just saw that in an Environment Canada rainfall warning. Pretty good description of where Oceanside is.

Oceanside EC weather.

I'm brand new to Lemmy, and I'm still figuring out how things work so created /c/oceanside_bc as a way to stick my toe in the ocean.

The icon image is from Stable Diffusion which did a pretty good job from a simple prompt of "Rathtrevor Beach with a madrona tree".