august 07, 2012

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Our Community in Review PART 4 of 5 ~ 2000-2005

We are proud to have had an important role in starting up what is today’s

Parksville-Qualicum Beach News!

D2 30th Anniversary Series Tuesday, August 7, 2012 The Parksville Qualicum Beach News

Community in Review ~ 2000

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TOP STORIES

Erik Goetzinger (right) was killed when a homemade explosive device went

off prematurely. The local BMX track was renamed in his honour and flags

in the area flew at half mast.

Smoking ban angers restaurants

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Reprieve for Brown land

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Always willingto make a splash for a good cause, the News chili team took

a Men in Black theme for their costumes in 2001.

Trouble in the Grove

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This seal was not so cute-

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Nikki the dog was in rough shape by the time

she was rescued, but she ended up making a full

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Community in Review ~ 2002TOP STORIES

Firefighters battle a fire at Qualicum Foods in Qualicum Beach. Their efforts were unable to save the building, which burned to the

ground. It was later replaced with the current structure.

Qualicum Foods burns to the ground

Councillor Jack Wilson was front and centre in the

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TOP STORIES

Fifth time was the charm for Brian, a bald eagle at the Wildlife Recovery

Centre in Errington. The bird was fitted with its fifth prosthetic beak in

January. The bird’s beak had been partly blown off by a shotgun blast.

Giant tree crushes car

Legislature raid scandal

Couple killed in Cathedral Grove

Local MLA Judith Reid not said to be involved

Remains cause anger at Deep Bay MarinaFirst nation calls for answers after loads of dirt moved

Errington man called a hero

Krog loses leadership

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Community in Review ~ 2004TOP STORIES

Thousands of people thronged into Qualicum beach’s uptown core in 2004

for the annual Fire and Ice festival.

On guard for the Grove

Jack Smith, AKA Sneaky Pete from Denman Island stares down Bull-Derek, a

brahma bull at the Coombs Bull-a-rama in June.

Trouble at the bottom of the seaNanoose Bay seabed a burning issue for many people

Rugby team makes history

Congratulations to our downtown business neighbour Parksville-Qualicum Beach News on 30 years of publishing excellence and

community service. Thank you for your ongoing support of Parksville Downtown.

—The Board, Staff and the more than 240 members of the Parksville Downtown Business Association



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Malcolm Gray helped make sure no rubber ducks were left behind in the Big

Qualicum River during the annual duck race fundraiser on Canada Day for

the Bowser branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.

News editor Steven Heywood lands a whopper in the form of assistant edi-

tor Neil Horner as they promote the paper’s fish story contest.

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Man trapped by a fallen tree

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Meth task force to battle drug

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Gas hits a dollar

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Thirty years after start-ing up, the Parksville Qualicum Beach News is still the mid-Island’s happening

community newspaper — a trend that we started way back in 1982 with the help of some very supportive advertisers and individuals.

Three decades ago, the paper was created to fill the void when the Parksville Progress stopped publication. It all started as the Parksville Advertiser in 1982, began by Roy Linder, with the backing up of-and-coming busi-nessmen, Ken Schley, John Bri-uolo and Noel Hayward.

They are the trio behind Qua-licum — and now Quality — Foods in Qualicum Beach. Their commitment to being the an-chor advertiser in the fledgeling newspaper helped spur on the decision to start the publication.

“They commanded a big fol-lowing and brought a big reader-ship to the paper,” said Linder in THE NEWS’ 10th anniversary edi-tion in 1992. “And they still do today.”

How right he was — and still is some 30 years later.

THE NEWS, now owned by

Black Press, grew, and so did Qualicum Foods — and in a very big way.

Today, that company owns multiple grocery stores on Van-couver Island and the Sunshine Coast. They have won countless

awards for both their service and technological innovation.

Quality Foods, as the larger company is now known, cel-ebrated its 30th anniversary a little earlier this year, but their history here is inexorably tied to

that of THE NEWS.Once called the News-Adver-

tiser, over the first 10 years of publishing, the Advertiser was dropped and the community paper has been known as THE NEWS ever since. It was named

the province’s top paper in its category for the first time in 1986, and would win that same award again and again (most recently in 2010). This year, THE NEWS was graded second-best in B.C. and won a blue ribbon in the annual national community newspapers competition.

This commitment to excel-lence translates into a commu-nity newspaper that tries its best to serve its readers and help im-prove the community in which it operates.

This level of service to the community as a whole is more than echoed by our anchor ad-vertiser (as well as many others who support this paper through advertising).

Quality Foods, it must be noted, has been a huge booster of the area over the years, and its owners have been front-and-centre in many events and causes since they opened their doors 30 years ago.

The future for THE NEWS looks bright, with continued support from the community as a whole — and carrying with it a com-mitment to bring its readers the stories from the area that keep them informed and entertained.

THE NEWS’ history entwined with Quality Foods

NEWS FILE PHOTO

Twenty years ago, the staff of the Parksville Qualicum Beach News posed for this 10th anniversary photo.

Today, The News is still celebrating successes both in the local community and among its newsprint peers.

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