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Thursday, November 3, 2016 10:45 AM
The final portion of diking designed to provide flood protection for Duncan and the Koksilah industrial and business complex area is now complete thanks to $4.133 million in funding from the federal and provincial governments and the Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD).
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Wednesday, November 2, 2016 7:30 AM
Students, teachers and staff at École Cobble Hill Elementary school in the Cowichan Valley school district will benefit from $220,000 in provincial School Enhancement Program funding.
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Saturday, October 22, 2016 1:05 PM
A first-of-its-kind incubator seed farm created with the help of a government-funded Job Creation Partnership officially opened in Duncan.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016 10:30 AM
Families in the Cowichan Valley school district will no longer pay fees for students riding school buses within their schools’ catchment area thanks to $283,524 in funding under the new provincial Student Transportation Fund.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 10:30 AM
Canada’s first teaching incubator seed farm is coming to Duncan through the Cowichan Green Community Society, thanks to a Job Creation Partnership project funded by the provincial government.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016 11:30 AM
Team- and consensus-building, empathy, action planning and understanding gender-based violence were among topics at a leadership camp for 50 local youth, organized by School District 79 and funded by a $42,000 grant from provincial civil forfeiture proceeds.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016 9:30 AM
As many as 28 new community mental health workers trained at the Cowichan Campus of Vancouver Island University (VIU) will be able to access their education at reduced tuition later this year.
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Monday, November 16, 2015 11:00 AM
When 17-year-old Jade thinks about her 2004 adoption, she remembers her nearly six-year-old self being relatively unfazed.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014 1:00 PM
The Cowichan Green Community Society is looking a little greener thanks to nearly $55,000 in provincial Job Creation Partnership funding that gave three people work experience in organic horticulture.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014 2:30 PM
Cowichan Valley residents who want to know what’s in their well water have an opportunity this spring to find out for free.
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