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Jackie and Oral Neilson are seriously choked about being taxed for a sanitary sewer lift station in Lancaster Heights. As are 60 other homeowners in the Comox neighbourhood.

NDP leadership candidate Adrian Dix considers the Comox Valley a "priority area" for his party, both provincially and federally, which explains his second round of campaigning on the North Island. During a Tuesday visit to Cumberland and Courtenay after addressing party members Monday in Campbell River, the MLA for Vancouver Kingsway shared his concerns about long-term care fees and about hardships faced by college and university students.

Many Comox Valley youth have made the LINC Youth Centre a second home. Now the public will have a chance to see for themselves what makes this facility such a special place. On Monday, March 14 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m., the LINC will host an open house for anyone interested in learning more about the facility and its programs.

Two members from 19 Wing have been selected to represent the Canadian Forces during a series of memorial services at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemeteries in the vicinity of Vimy Ridge and in the Somme from March 9 to 19.

Verbal taunts of “That’s so gay,” graffiti displays of swastikas and other hurtful symbols, racial epithets called out of car windows on the streets of the Comox Valley are all ways of causing harm and pain to members of the Comox Valley community. And they are behaviours which the Comox Valley doesn’t accept.

BC Hydro will be undertaking equipment maintenance on the Comox Dam spillway gates this Saturday, and to complete the work, BC Hydro must lift one of the two gates for adequate clearance.

For the second-degree murder of an acquaintance in Vancouver, a Comox Valley man received a mandatory life sentence recently without hope of parole for 10 years. Aaron Juhani Yliruusi, 32, was convicted Jan. 31 by a B.C. Supreme Court jury in Vancouver for killing William Merchant on Jan. 11, 2009 in the 65-year-old’s apartment.