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Planet Ice in Maple Ridge is the only B.C. arena to be a finalist in this year’s Kraft Hockeyville contest. (The News file)

B.C. arena named finalist in Kraft Hockeyville contest

Planet Ice is one of the four finalists competing for the $250,000 grand prize

 

Renowned nature and wildlife artist Valerie Rogers works on a painting of a wolf in her Salmon Arm studio. (Photo contributed)

Renowned Salmon Arm wildlife artist puts her stamp on prestigious contest

Painting of spawning chinook wins Pacific Salmon Foundation competition

 

2021 Wildlife in Focus first place winner Wild Settings. Photo credit: Steve Burgess

BC SPCA annual Wildlife-in-Focus photography contest ends soon

There’s still time to enter the BC SPCA’s annual Wildlife-in-Focus photography contest,…

  • Jul 7, 2022

 

People take part the 2019 Spirit of the People Powwow at Chilliwack Secondary on Feb. 16, 2019. Youth are being asked “What does being Indigenous mean to you?” as the topic of the National Indigenous Peoples Day 2022 Writing and/or Art Contest. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)

Fraser Valley writing, art contest open to all Indigenous youth in B.C.

Youth asked ‘What does being Indigenous mean to you?’ as the topic contest

People take part the 2019 Spirit of the People Powwow at Chilliwack Secondary on Feb. 16, 2019. Youth are being asked “What does being Indigenous mean to you?” as the topic of the National Indigenous Peoples Day 2022 Writing and/or Art Contest. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)
Winners for Qualicum Beach’s ‘Our Town’ photo contest, announced on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. Photos, clockwise from left: Angie Ooms’s “A Tribute to Another Time”; David Cotton’s “After the Rains”; Bill Majercsik’s “Vying for Top Honours”; Vance Taylor’s “Qualicum Beach Sunset”; David Cotton’s “Snow Along the Boardwalk”; and Angie Ooms’s “Outdoor Dining”. (Submitted photos)

Winners announced for special Qualicum Beach ‘Our Town’ photo contest

More than 200 entries received from amateur and professional photographers

Winners for Qualicum Beach’s ‘Our Town’ photo contest, announced on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. Photos, clockwise from left: Angie Ooms’s “A Tribute to Another Time”; David Cotton’s “After the Rains”; Bill Majercsik’s “Vying for Top Honours”; Vance Taylor’s “Qualicum Beach Sunset”; David Cotton’s “Snow Along the Boardwalk”; and Angie Ooms’s “Outdoor Dining”. (Submitted photos)
Parksville-Qualicum MLA Adam Walker stopped by Dave MacVicar's Grade 4/5 class at Arrowview Elementary school on Friday, Dec. 10, to award $100 in gift certificates to the winner of his winter art contest. (Submitted photo)

Parksville-Qualicum MLA Adam Walker visits with Arrowview Elementary School youngsters

Walker awarded $100 in gift certificates to the winner of regional school winter art contest

Parksville-Qualicum MLA Adam Walker stopped by Dave MacVicar's Grade 4/5 class at Arrowview Elementary school on Friday, Dec. 10, to award $100 in gift certificates to the winner of his winter art contest. (Submitted photo)
South Surrey’s Jacek Kaim got an honourable mention in last year’s contest for this photo of a skunk family. (Jacek Kaim photo)

BC SPCA invites amateur photographers to ‘go wild’ for annual competition

Deadline for Wildlife-In-Focus contest, open to anyone 14 and over, is July 26

South Surrey’s Jacek Kaim got an honourable mention in last year’s contest for this photo of a skunk family. (Jacek Kaim photo)
Karen Golden will portray Ann Landers in the ECHO Players digital production of ‘The Lady With All The Answers’ by David Rambo. Show dates will be May 7, 8 and 9, at 7:30 p.m., and tickets can be purchased online starting April 14. (Submitted photo)

Win tickets to the ECHO Players rendition of ‘The Lady With All the Answers’

Names to be submitted via email by no later than May 3 at 5 p.m.

Karen Golden will portray Ann Landers in the ECHO Players digital production of ‘The Lady With All The Answers’ by David Rambo. Show dates will be May 7, 8 and 9, at 7:30 p.m., and tickets can be purchased online starting April 14. (Submitted photo)
If you know a first responder or frontline worker who deserves a vacation, you can enter their names in the Essential Workers Free Trip Contest, sponsored by Travel By Sandy in Parksville. (File photo)

Nominate deserving essential workers for entry into contest for chance at a free vacation to Mexico

Parksville travel agency stages contest as a way to offer thanks

If you know a first responder or frontline worker who deserves a vacation, you can enter their names in the Essential Workers Free Trip Contest, sponsored by Travel By Sandy in Parksville. (File photo)
Chaney Vigneault of the Errington Fire Department. (PQB News photo)

Errington firefighter Vigneault first ‘castaway’ voted off

Survivor PQB ‘Last Badge Standing’ contest underway

  • Mar 18, 2020
Chaney Vigneault of the Errington Fire Department. (PQB News photo)
It’s time for ‘Survivor IV – Last Badge Standing’. (PQB News illustration)

PQB News readers to decide who is the ‘Last Badge Standing’

Popular ‘Survivor’ game returns, featuring eight area firefighters

  • Mar 11, 2020
It’s time for ‘Survivor IV – Last Badge Standing’. (PQB News illustration)
Tim Hortons has changed the rules of its much-loved Roll Up the Rim game. (Nicole Crescenzi/News Staff)

Tim Hortons minimizes Roll Up the Rim contest, adopts digital play

Significant changes have been made to the national game

Tim Hortons has changed the rules of its much-loved Roll Up the Rim game. (Nicole Crescenzi/News Staff)
Captain Hook and Peter Pan (played by Daniel Sailland and Ashlee Sales) clash in an epic duel during this ECHO Players production of Peter Pan in 2018 shows. The NEWS has tickets available for the next ECHO Players show, The Secret Garden, which opens Feb. 13. (News file photo)

Free ticket alert! Ticket giveaway for ECHO Players’ Secret Garden

Four sets of tickets are up for grabs during the February production

  • Feb 2, 2020
Captain Hook and Peter Pan (played by Daniel Sailland and Ashlee Sales) clash in an epic duel during this ECHO Players production of Peter Pan in 2018 shows. The NEWS has tickets available for the next ECHO Players show, The Secret Garden, which opens Feb. 13. (News file photo)
Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 12. (File photo)

Share your favourite ‘Mom’ memories for Mother’s Day

One reader will win a $50 gift card

  • May 11, 2019
Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 12. (File photo)
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