Green Thumbs and Sustainability

Keeping up with the reality of our changing world, members of the Ladysmith Saltair Garden Club continue to cultivate deeper understanding of how to keep our gardens sustainable and our …

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10 Tips to stay SANE – strong, active, neighbourly and energetic – during the Coronavirus Pandemic

By GUY DAUNCEY

How can we stay SANE during this crisis? With care for others, and a rigorous two meters social distance. We all need to imagine that we are …

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Solutions bring community together

Earthfest Creative Climate Solutions Showcase, one of the many community events cancelled as a result of the current pandemic, is taking it online to bring people together in the spirit …

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Discover Our Heritage- The Last Pandemic

Thank you to Ladysmith & District Historical Society volunteers John and Esther Sharp, Rob Johnson, Dr. Ed Nicholson and Dr. Quentin Goodbody for research on the last pandemic to …

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Tideline- Maiatla and the real Pirates of the Caribbean

By Andrew Gunson

We departed Ladysmith Harbour on Vancouver Island in the fall of 2012, bound south on our 53-foot sailing vessel, Maiatla. My wife, Janet, and I, along …

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Education and Engagement Continue at LDHS

“While the Ladysmith & District Historical Society (LDHS) has closed the museum and archives and ceased Saturday operations at the waterfront until further notice, that doesn’t mean that our …

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Airport terminal boarding lounge and security area

The Nanaimo Airport held a grand opening on February 28 of its recently completed boarding lounge and security area. The completed $15-million terminal expansion project included a 14,000 …

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