If a disaster on the scale of the recent landslide in Washington happened in our area, would you be prepared? Would you know what to do if an earthquake shook Oceanside? Where would you go? What supplies would you have? There are numerous resources available but few of us take the time to investigate them,…
“For people who like to travel, it’s like putting a child in a candy shop” is how Judy Miller describes she and Randy Borger’s 15 years owning and managing ExpediaCruiseShipCentres in Nanaimo. Now, having travelled to almost 100 countries (many for “product research”), they say that their favourite trip was to see the mountain gorillas…
In the most recent issue of Business in Nanaimo, Sasha Angus, CEO of Nanaimo Economic Development Corporation (NEDC), described the $50 million, 240 room hotel planned for downtown Nanaimo as a “tremendous asset to the community”. As a result of promotion lauding Nanaimo as a tourism destination to tour agents across China, the company projects that the hotel will be a drop-off point for 70,000 Chinese guests…
“Our NW Bay Probus group of approximately 50+ people attended the December 6th Christmas Party/Meeting, and left feeling quite exhilarated! The AGM was passed and the party began! Bob Popple started us off with his splendid piano music of varied Christmas carols, which lead into surprise guest appearances. The amazing Elvis (Sean Moore), did an…
Sherry Coutts, Project Manager for the new Oceanside Health Centre (OHC), outlined their services and the philosophy behind them at our November 2013 meeting. A graduate of the faculty of pharmacy at UBC with a B.Sc in Pharmacy, Sherry then completed a one year hospital residency in clinical pharmacy at the University Hospital –…
Stephen Watson concluded his talk at our October meeting with a caution for everyone to be prudent with our power use. He suggested that we know what we use (it can be checked daily online), think about how to become more environmentally aware and never take for granted our power production and transmission. He…