The North West Bay PROBUS Digital Scavenger Hunt On Wed., June 24th sixteen club members and guests assembled in downtown Nanaimo to walk the streets. The sky was overcast which was the perfect weather for taking pictures and hiking the harbour front. Six teams participated in the Club’s first ever digital scavenger hunt. Their…
Newcastle Island is a hidden gem and, despite it’s proximity to downtown Nanaimo, many people in Oceanside have never been to it. On Saturday, September 13, 2014 the Northwest Bay PROBUS group set out to explore the island on its third hike of the season. Our numbers were smaller than previously (just six plus two dogs); but…
For our first Northwest Bay PROBUS Club hike on a beautiful sunny Friday August 8th 2014, we had 14 members (including four ladies). We car-pooled to the trailhead about 35 minutes just below Cassidy Airport. The Haslam Trail has blue markers and is part of the Trans Canada Trail. We started out shortly after 9:15.…
Twenty-two years ago you had to hop on the ferry to Vancouver to buy high quality gourmet foods, especially cheeses. In 1991, Eric McLean identified the market niche and he and his wife, Sandy, quit their jobs and moved to Nanaimo from Maple Ridge. Drawing upon a lifetime of experience in sales and marketing, Eric…
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…