PARKSVILLE - An incumbent City Councilor has thrown his hat into the race for mayor.Doug O'Brien was first elected to council in 2018, and said he wan.
PARKSVILLE - The current Mayor of Parksville wants to keep moving forward with his plans of trying to attract a younger demographic to the city.Mayor .
Most communities around Vancouver Island are seeing significant percentage increases in their populations showing the need for more affordable housing and social services.
VICTORIA British Columbia’s provincial government had pledged that people who are 80 years old and over and reside in the community would get their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in February or March, but delays in vaccine supply have slowed things down somewhat. Still, B.C.’s Health Minister Adrian Dix said Friday that first doses for this highly vulnerable demographic could be expected by mid-March. “You can expect to be vaccinated between March 15 and the end of March,” said Dix, after noting that the lack of supply of the vaccines has been the only impediment to faster administration of the shots.
Environment Canada issued sweeping alerts for Vancouver Island this week predicting the coldest weather of the year as arctic air and frigid temperatures descend along its east coast.
Yet the homeless in Parksville and Qualicum Beach have nowhere to seek warmth from the deep freeze after the region’s only cold weather shelter was closed last March.
Rev. Christine Muise of OHEART a coalition of nine churches in the region that ran the shelter has been advocating for a solution for close to a year after the shelter at St. Anne’s church had to close because the facility was inadequate to meet COVID-19 concerns.