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An ice cream sandwich, oatmeal cookie layers with pink ice cream in between, sits wrapped in black checkered wax paper on a black bistro table.

Lys Eats Trucks: Icy treats beat the heat at One Cool Cookie

By Lys Morton ● Nanaimo ● August 11, 2022 September 1, 2022

One Cool Cookie provides the ability to build your own ice cream sandwich. With a selection of homemade cookies and local ice cream, you pick the combo that suits your fancy.

A red Shawarma food truck with the words Al Khalid is parked at a beach.

Lys Eats Trucks: A taste of Alkhalid Food

By Lys Morton ● Nanaimo ● August 4, 2022 December 21, 2022

What happens when a sold out menu meets Nanaimo’s ‘best visiting customer’? Lys Morton presents the first community choice review for #LysEatsTrucks

Graduates of NewToBC's Library Champions program stand with their certificates

Vancouver Island newcomers can soon become Library Champions

By Lys Morton ● Nanaimo ● May 19, 2022 August 4, 2022

The Library Champions Project at the Vancouver Island Regional Library aims to connect new Canadians to resources and community in the new place they call home.

Members of Team 700 Indigenous youth boxing club stand for a group picture in the boxing ring.

Community spotlight: Indigenous Youth boxing ‘Team 700’ fights on

By Lys Morton ● Vancouver Island ● March 17, 2022 September 30, 2022

The community rallied to keep Team 700 together. Now, founder Ivy Richardson invites sponsors to help build a stable future.

Tarps, tents and supplies are spread around the city-owned Bastion Street bridge and parkade. Photo courtesy of the City of Nanaimo

Reporter’s Notebook: Eviction at Bastion Street bridge

By Lys Morton ● Nanaimo ● January 13, 2022 September 28, 2022

After the city removed a truckload of tarps and other cold-weather supplies from the encampment, advocates point to solutions.

A stack of books sits on the table with a phone showing an audiobook on the screen.

Community shout-out: Vancouver Island Regional Library trials no late fees

By Lys Morton ● Nanaimo ● January 6, 2022 August 4, 2022

With growing evidence on the barriers late fees create, VIRL extends its pause on late fees for another year.

Four people huddle around a propane fireplace, viewed from above.

After Nanaimo’s only warming centre suddenly closed, this organization stepped up

By Lys Morton ● Nanaimo ● December 22, 2021 August 4, 2022

Within hours, RISEBRIDGE brought the community together to provide a low-barrier emergency warming centre, maintain fragile relationships and rebuild trust.

A birds eye view of two students in the School Water Stewards program as they look closely at a white buckets of stream water to assess its health.

These elementary school students are restoring neighbourhood waterways

By Lys Morton ● Nanaimo ● December 16, 2021 July 27, 2022

School Water Stewards program helps students foster connection and responsibility to local streams, marshes and lakes.

The fence at Wesley Street, photographed in February 2021 by resident and advocate Myra Thomson.

What a judge’s ruling on homeless camps could mean for unhoused citizens of Nanaimo

By Lys Morton ● Nanaimo ● November 18, 2021 August 4, 2022

After the B.C. Supreme Court ruled a Prince George homeless camp can stay, cities like Nanaimo need to ‘rethink why they’re doing,’ says law professor.

A southern resident killer whale mother and her calf are photographed swimming in 2004. Orcas stay with their mother throughout their lives, even after they have offspring of their own.

Matriarch orca’s death may explain J pod’s absence, this scientist says

By Lys Morton ● Nanaimo ● September 9, 2021 August 4, 2022

While environmental factors like the decline in salmon likely played a role, the real ‘catastrophe’ may have been the end of her 106-year reign.

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