Lake Cowichan, Canada News

Imagine any item that would make a hospitalized youngster or newborn more comfortable.

By Diana Hutton - Lake Cowichan Gazette Published: February 08, 2012 10:00 AM Updated: February 08, 2012 10:41 AM A local woman recently experienced one of the unseen "cracks" in our health care system.

Stephen Bowman, left, is benefiting from living at the new Esther's House transitional facility, where Shawn Richards is facilitator.

A jar rests near the microphone at the radio station, a glass repository for coins coaxed from visitors' pockets and purses.

The Cowichan Valley Board of Education voted Jan. 18 to turn down Education Minister George Abbott's offer of surplus modular classrooms and move A.B. Greenwell Elementary to Palsson Elementary School.

The traditional Celtic band Rig-A-Jig will perform at Music in the Lake at lower Centennial Hall on Jan.

By Dorian Geiger - Lake Cowichan Gazette Published: January 25, 2012 2:00 PM Updated: January 25, 2012 2:06 PM Lake Cowichan's Town Council has recently received a technological facelift in the form of five new Apple iPad 2s.

By John McKinley - Cowichan News Leader Pictorial Published: January 25, 2012 1:00 PM Updated: January 25, 2012 1:21 PM A thanks, but no thanks response was delivered to the provincial government this week on an offer to provide two modular classrooms to Lake Cowichan Instead the board asked the education ministry to use any money that may have ... (more)

Despite the wishes of one of its founders, the Island Corridor Foundation has no plans to open board meetings to the public, according to its executive director.

For the brave men and women who answered the call to serve in Canada's armed forces, help is available through the Department of Veteran's Affairs.