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Victoria musician Adam Bay will be bringing his unique one-man performance to the Duncan Showroom April 2, ahead of the launch of his debut album Pacific Blood. Bay plays the weissenborn slide guitar, didgeridoo, stomp box and other instruments.

Enjoy ‘sneak peek’ with eclectic Adam Bay

Adam Bay loves the West Coast and the music it inspires in him is being enjoyed by audiences all over the Island and Gulf Islands.

Victoria musician Adam Bay will be bringing his unique one-man performance to the Duncan Showroom April 2, ahead of the launch of his debut album Pacific Blood. Bay plays the weissenborn slide guitar, didgeridoo, stomp box and other instruments.
Tania Miller and Stewart Goodyear

Goodyear highlights Symphony’s sendoff

Victoria Symphony will have a grand sendoff right here in Duncan for its first-ever cross-Canada tour.

Tania Miller and Stewart Goodyear

‘Virginia Woolf’ moved to Sept.

The Mercury Players’ production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has been postponed until September

From left, liver transplant recipient Amanda Poch, kidney transplant recipient Tracey Bodger and kidney transplant recipient Stu Keeping volunteered to raise organ donation awareness Friday, March 11 at the Cowichan Aquatic Centre in Duncan.

Two minutes and one signed form saved her life

The 36-year-old is still thankful for the moment 10 years ago when a liver transplant saved her life

From left, liver transplant recipient Amanda Poch, kidney transplant recipient Tracey Bodger and kidney transplant recipient Stu Keeping volunteered to raise organ donation awareness Friday, March 11 at the Cowichan Aquatic Centre in Duncan.
David Pennington of Duncan helps clean up plastic waste on the beaches of Waisai, Indonesia.

Run takes aim at ocean plastic

David Pennington is running for cleaner oceans and communities, one kilometre at a time.

David Pennington of Duncan helps clean up plastic waste on the beaches of Waisai, Indonesia.

Cultural Centre doors stay open — for now

The Quw’utsun’ Cultural and Conference Centre is not closing, according to a press release from Cowichan Tribes.

Cowichan-Langford-Malahat Member of Parliament Alistair MacGregor (centre) speaks about his private member’s bill that seeks to protect Shawnigan Lake at a press conference March 14, as Shawnigan Lake Area Director Sonia Furstenau (left) and Cowichan Valley Member of the Legislative Assembly of B.C. Bill Routley (right) look on.

New bill aims to protect Shawnigan Lake

Member of Parliament Alistair MacGregor is putting federal weight behind stopping contaminated soil dumping at Shawnigan Lake.

Cowichan-Langford-Malahat Member of Parliament Alistair MacGregor (centre) speaks about his private member’s bill that seeks to protect Shawnigan Lake at a press conference March 14, as Shawnigan Lake Area Director Sonia Furstenau (left) and Cowichan Valley Member of the Legislative Assembly of B.C. Bill Routley (right) look on.
Never bring an umbrella to a sword fight. Island Oak students took advantage of some free time to rehearse a fight scene from their upcoming hilarious take on Shakespeare, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to a Comedy of Errors.’ Here, Antipholous of Syracuse (Shiming Huang, left) battles against a merchant (Raven Myren) over a debt disagreement as Antipholous’ assistant Dromico of Syracuse (Nikolai Lampson, centre) looks on.

Two comedy classics meld in school show

Island Oak High School’s senior students are presenting Hitchhiker’s Guide to a Comedy of Errors this Thursday and Friday

Never bring an umbrella to a sword fight. Island Oak students took advantage of some free time to rehearse a fight scene from their upcoming hilarious take on Shakespeare, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to a Comedy of Errors.’ Here, Antipholous of Syracuse (Shiming Huang, left) battles against a merchant (Raven Myren) over a debt disagreement as Antipholous’ assistant Dromico of Syracuse (Nikolai Lampson, centre) looks on.
George (Marinus Vesseur) loses his cool and begins choking his wife Martha (Jennifer Lally) as younger couple Nick (Brandon Newell) and Honey (Lauren Cooper) look on in horror and enjoyment, respectively.

Mercury Players delve into marriage strife

Get an inside look at a troubled marriage heading off the rails and resentments bubbling to the surface

George (Marinus Vesseur) loses his cool and begins choking his wife Martha (Jennifer Lally) as younger couple Nick (Brandon Newell) and Honey (Lauren Cooper) look on in horror and enjoyment, respectively.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to supporters following a rally at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, N.H. on Aug. 14, 2015.

All Trumped up: tales from the American campaign trail

I’m in a roomful of media waiting for a press conference in Hampton, New Hampshire. The date is Aug. 14, 2015.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to supporters following a rally at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, N.H. on Aug. 14, 2015.
Dancers perform a Russian Cossack dance choreographed by C. Shaw on March 2 at the Cowichan Music Festival Highlights Concert.

Music Festival highlights galas delight [photos]

The Cowichan Music Festival let its brightest stars shine March 2 and March 5 at a pair of dazzling highlight concerts

Dancers perform a Russian Cossack dance choreographed by C. Shaw on March 2 at the Cowichan Music Festival Highlights Concert.

‘Bombargo’ ready to rock Showroom stage

Saskatoon-based alternative rock band Bombargo is ready to travel around and rock the country on the heels of their debut release

Cowichan Secondary School students perform in the school production of ‘Steel Pier’ in 2009.

New performing arts program for Cow High

Local students will soon have a chance to get ahead — dramatically.

Cowichan Secondary School students perform in the school production of ‘Steel Pier’ in 2009.
High as a kite on painkillers, Violet Weston (Jan Ovans) has some trouble enunciating her words as she jokes around with local sherriff Deon Gilbeau (Erin Butler).

Players’ dark comedy a spectacular show

Family drama takes a turn for the darkly comic in the Shawnigan Players’ outstanding production of August: Osage County

High as a kite on painkillers, Violet Weston (Jan Ovans) has some trouble enunciating her words as she jokes around with local sherriff Deon Gilbeau (Erin Butler).
Cleanup continued this week at a downtown Duncan building that was shut down due to reported asbestos contamination. A pharmacy and two dental offices in the building are now open again.

Dental offices, pharmacy open after asbestos cleanup

Cowichan Valley Dental Group and Mountview Dental opened Thursday, March 3, with Mann’s Pharmacy expected to open later in the day.

Cleanup continued this week at a downtown Duncan building that was shut down due to reported asbestos contamination. A pharmacy and two dental offices in the building are now open again.
South Island Traffic, North Cowichan/Duncan and Ladysmith RCMP box in and stop a vehicle after a lengthy pursuit, following a drive-by shooting in Nanaimo on Tuesday afternoon. The chase came to an end at the intersection of Coronation Avenue and the Trans-Canada Highway in Duncan.

Two men arrested following drive-by shooting in Nanaimo

A pair of men were arrested Tuesday afternoon in Duncan, following a wild police chase in the aftermath of a drive-by shooting in Nanaimo.

South Island Traffic, North Cowichan/Duncan and Ladysmith RCMP box in and stop a vehicle after a lengthy pursuit, following a drive-by shooting in Nanaimo on Tuesday afternoon. The chase came to an end at the intersection of Coronation Avenue and the Trans-Canada Highway in Duncan.
A motorist drives past the closed lane on Cowichan Bay Road.

Landslide closes lane of traffic on Cowichan Bay Road

Traffic continues to be single lane for a stretch of Cowichan Bay Road bordering a landslide.

A motorist drives past the closed lane on Cowichan Bay Road.
E.J. Hughes lived and worked in the Cowichan Valley for many years.

Hughes works to go on show in Whistler gallery

A new art museum in Whistler will feature the work of legendary late Shawnigan Lake painter E.J. Hughes.

E.J. Hughes lived and worked in the Cowichan Valley for many years.
The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra plays March 6 at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre in a performance entitled ‘House of Dreams’.

Symphony celebrates 60th with Tafelmusik

The best of baroque music will soon grace the Cowichan Valley.

The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra plays March 6 at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre in a performance entitled ‘House of Dreams’.
The South Island Musical Theatre Society is hard at work rehearsing for ‘Anne of Green Gables’. The musical runs March 31 to April 3 at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre.

‘Anne’ tells classic Canadian tale

It will be a classic slice of Canadiana for South Island Musical Theatre Society as they present 'Anne of Green Gables'

The South Island Musical Theatre Society is hard at work rehearsing for ‘Anne of Green Gables’. The musical runs March 31 to April 3 at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre.