Yellow Point and Cedar Country Christmas Tour — November 18 to 21

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Lesley Lorenz
Yellow Point and Cedar Country Christmas Tour

Photo credit: Nicole Vaugeois

November is the perfect time to traipse amongst fallen leaves, take a Sunday drive through a beautiful pastoral scene, and hunt for unique gifts for the coming holidays. The Yellow Point and Cedar Country Christmas Tour offers a delight-filled trip for visitors and locals alike.

The artisans who live and work in this rural area open their doors at 10 am each day and invite the public to browse their wares and poke amongst the artwork until 5 pm. Run your fingers through the softest wool you’ve ever felt at the Yellow Point Alpaca Farm or book a country portrait session with Nicole at the Broody Rooster Guest Houseand Gift Shop. Pick up honey, cranberries or dried herbs at one of the working farms – the produce couldn’t be fresher or more local! View artisans working in their own creative environment, displaying their work, discussing and demonstrating techniques and serving light refreshments. This scenic road trip encompasses native art, jewellery, original paintings, stained glass mosaics, pottery, quilts, woodwork, photography and hand-forged iron work.

Spend the whole day, bring a friend or two, and enjoy a country adventure. You won’t want to miss the world famous Barton-Leier Gallery or the Old England ambiance of the Crow and Gate Pub. Maps and brochures available at tourism information centres. Company’s coming and we’ve opened our doors – please come in and enjoy our hospitality!

Yellow Point and Cedar Country Christmas Tour

A Map of the Yellow Point and Cedar Country Christmas Tour — Click to View a Larger Image

For more information on the tour please visit the Cedar Yellow Point Artisans Association website.

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Sunrise in Nanaimo!

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Aidan
Sunrise
Photograph © Aidan Moher, 2010

Woke up to a lovely sunrise, what a wonderful way to start the day!

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150-year-old Nanaimo Bastion gets a Facelift

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Aidan
Nanaimo Bastion – Some rights reserved by waledro

Nanaimo Bastion – Some rights reserved by Flickr User: waledro

Nanaimo’s Bastion was originally 157 years ago. Even in 2010, it still stands as an iconic landmark in downtown Nanaimo. Jessica Kirby wrote a wonderful article about the Bastion and what its well-deserved renovation means for the city.

It stands watch over the harbour in this Vancouver Island community like a beacon, as it has since the Hudson’s Bay Company first arrived here after following coal up the coast from Victoria in the early 1850s.

The Bastion — an 11-metre-high, white octagonal tower — is Nanaimo’s oldest building, and has served as a trading post, a stronghold, a jail and an office space before its current incarnation as a heritage site and interactive museum.

But that lengthy history has taken its toll on the 157-year-old icon.

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The Nanaimo Museum raised almost half the budget for the repair, including $85,000 from the Hudson’s Bay Company, $50,000 from local philanthropist Sidney Sharman, and $10,000 from the Lions’ Club. The City of Nanaimo picked up the remaining $155,000.

The building’s unveiling will take place during the Princess Royal Day celebration Nov. 27.

You can read Kirby’s article about Nanaimo’s Bastion on the Winnipeg Free Press website.

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The Globe and Mail Features Nanaimo!

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Aidan
The Nanaimo Harbourfront on Vancouver Island

The Nanaimo Harbourfront on Vancouver Island

It seems like everytime we blink, someone else has discovered our wonderful waterfront city. This time around, Kerry Gold of The Globe and Mail newspaper has a wonderful article about Nanaimo and the wonderful opportunity it’s providing for residents of Vancouver, just a 20 minute plane ride away!

There’s a new resort destination – it’s 20 minutes from downtown Vancouver and for less than half a million dollars, you get a two-bedroom, 1,100 square foot apartment with a waterfront view.

It’s the Vancouver Island city of Nanaimo, which has turned from a worn out and empty mill town into the kind of cozy seaside city where restaurants are housed in heritage buildings and the ocean views are about as spectacular as it gets on the West Coast. In other words, it’s close to becoming a resort town, where Vancouverites in search of affordable waterfront property can go for a weekend getaway.

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Downtown Nanaimo is a small but scenic heritage neighbourhood that was a quaint seaside community until big box retail came to town. Many of the businesses moved to the outlying malls at the north end of the city, where people did their shopping by car instead of on foot. With the major department stores and many of the mom and pop shops gone, and with little residential development in the core, it became a neglected ghost town. For several years, the City of Nanaimo has been offering incentives to revitalize the economy of the downtown core, and it’s worked. There is the new Vancouver Island Conference Centre, restaurants in heritage buildings, a four-kilometre seawall, boutique stores moving in, and tourists and locals walking around the streets.

You can read the full article HERE.

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Last Minute Halloween Ideas in Nanaimo!

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Courtenay

Last Minute Halloween Activities in Nanaimo! Photo by WXMOM on Flickr.If you are looking for something spooktacular to do this weekend here are few events happening in Nanaimo:

Dinner Murder Mystery at Acme Restaurant on Saturday at 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm). It’s the Hallowe’en event of the season as luminaries from the arts community gather for the wake of their devoted patron. But the ghoulish gathering takes on even greater significance when it raises the dead, and sends another to a similar fate. More importantly, can the worlds of ballet, opera and household cleaning all co-exist in the same room? An interactive evening of murder mystery fun that will test your skills as a detective while enjoying the hilarity. Dress theme is “Ghoulishly Black”. For ticket info check out www.englishentertainment.ca

Downtown Nanaimo is hosting Halloween activities for the little ones. Bring your little ghost, goblin, or spider man downtown for trick or treating from 12pm-3pm and look for the merchants with displaying black and orange balloons to find the candy loot. Trick or Treat maps can be found at the participating merchant. In addition, just outside Bocca in the Old City Quarter you will find Halloween crafting from noon-3pm and Halloween stories will be told at 2pm at the Harbour front Library. For more info check out www.dnbia.ca/events/downtown-trick-or-treat

Island Haunt presents its annual haunted house, the “Labyrinth of Darkness” at the Beban Park fairgrounds on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 7pm-11pm and admission is $8 per person. Enter into the world of evil darkness and come experience the ongoings that no-one talks about behind closed doors. ‘Labyrinth of Darkness’ is certain to have an impact on everyone who enters it. The International Association of Haunted Attractions identifies the ‘Labyrinth of Darkness’ as a High Startle, Low Gore attraction, signifying that the attraction will contain many startling scares using hidden corridors and misdirection. There will be little, if any, blood, guts or gore. For more information check out www.islandhaunt.com

Last Minute Halloween Activities in Nanaimo! Image by Artiom Ponkratenko on Flickr.

Shmooze Productions presents The Rocky Horror Show LIVE at the Nanaimo Centre Stage. On a dark and stormy night, an unsuspecting couple “accidentally” are drawn into an unusual world. Come join Brad and Janet as they meet Riff Raff, Magenta, Columbia, Rocky, Eddie, Dr. Scott, Narrator and, of course, FrankNFurter! This musical extravaganza includes all the hits from the movie, including Science Fiction Double Feature, Dammit Janet and The Time Warp. Come on out Saturday or Sunday night and participate! For more info check out www.schmoozeproductions.com

Halloween Trick or Treat at Country Club Mall on Sunday from 4pm-5pm. This event is happening all throughout the centre and all of the merchants at Country Club Centre are looking forward to seeing you and have goodies for your treat bag. Have a safe and fun Halloween at Country Club Centre. Volunteers from “Crimestoppers” will be at the JYSK and Save on Foods entrances. Help support this organization by making a small donation.

Sink or Swim Scuba is hosting its 2nd Annual Costume Contest and Underwater Pumpkin Carving Contest at Madrona Beach in Nanoose. We’re celebrating Halloween in three different ways, dress up with Halloween flair and go for a dive, or carve a pumpkin under water wearing traditional dive gear or, do both, dress up and carve your pumpkin. Add some fun. Enter your underwater pumpkin masterpiece for a chance to win prizes. Join us for eats, treats! Register today by contacting us at Sink or Swim Scuba. Family and Friends welcome. For more info check out their website www.sosscuba.ca

Dive Outfitters is hosting an Underwater Pumpkin Carving Contest and Costume Party on Sunday from 12pm-3pm. A fun filled scuba diving event where the public plays an important role. We need you to come down and help judge the pumpkins that the divers so artfully carve under water. Divers work their way through an underwater challenge course on their way to the pumpkin patch to pick their pumpkin. They then carve their pumpkin under water and return to shore for judging. Hot chocolate is available along with hot dogs, cookies and other goodies. This event is a fundraiser for the BC Kidney Foundation to raise awareness of kidney disease and the need for organ donation to help those on the extensive organ transplant list. For more info check out www.nanaimodiveoutfitters.ca

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Shhh – I have a secret to share (A Halloween Tale!)

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Lesley Lorenz

Slater, Tourism Nanaimo's Official Ghost Hunter!

Shhh – I have a secret to share

The daytime people have all gone home, and I have a little time to myself before the night people arrive. The Daytimers call me Slater – not what I would have picked myself, but still a name to twitch my whiskers at when they call me for dinner. After my meal is poured unceremoniously into my dish, the Daytimers lock the doors, their jangle of keys clicking to keep out intruders. Their intention may be to secure Beban House, but all it does it prick up my ears – and signal that night has begun.

The Nighttimers drift in, shadows flat enough to whisk under the doors and pinch their way through keyholes. Some come from outside, dragging damp fallen leaves and the smell of nightfall with them. Other Nighttimers come up from the basement, the moonlight calling them out of their day-long slumber. I tend to sleep most of the day too – the night holds so much more intrigue and adventure. The Nighttimers seek pleasure, moodily prowling the century old house until the game of the night is devised.

Tonight the youngest – a boy about twelve – carries his bouncing red ball into the uppermost chamber. I watch as he gathers the others around him. His voice cracks and breaks in his excitement. He has found a set of keys, and used his ball to knock them clear out of the keyhole – at the same time clicking the door into lock position. The Nighttimers have difficulty touching substance, you see. Even I can see the tiny blue sparks that fly painfully from objects to pale fingertips whenever they try to grasp a Daytimers item. Still, the prank will be possible if only I will drag the keys into the dumbwaiter and hide them. I grab the centre ring, holding them gingerly in my teeth – being an In-Betweener; metal objects are not painful, but nevertheless avoided because of their coppery taste and shivery coldness. “The game is like this…” the boy gleefully hisses as the Nighttimers breeze along the hall beside me. “The Daytimers cannot slide between the floorboards. They will rattle the door handles and let anger well up when they cannot enter the room where they keep their endless papers.” A chorus of snickers and barely contained howls erupts from the shadows at this announcement. “Best of all they will be scared.”

I let the keys drop from the clench of my teeth, and a satisfying jingle and metallic crash emanates up from the bottom of the dumb-waiter chute. The Nighttimers begin a twisting victory dance that sends the floorboards creaking, the blinds snapping in time and the wind whistling a haunting melody. The boy draws out from the pocket of his quilted jacket a tender morsel and lays it before me. It must have hurt his finger terribly to pinch it from the metal trap – but I’ve never said no to the ceremonious gift of a freshly caught mouse.

Sincerely,
Slater
Black Cat in Residence and In-Betweener
Beban House, Nanaimo

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The Candlelight Conservation Dinner, presented by Tourism Nanaimo and BC Hydro

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Lesley Lorenz
Candlelight Conservation Dinner, presented by Tourism Nanaimo and BC Hydro

Candlelight Conservation Dinner, presented by Tourism Nanaimo and BC Hydro

The candle is a symbol of light, warmth and continuity. The soft glow of candlelight has been part of our celebrations and traditions for centuries, from religious ceremonies to inspiring romance. Here are a few snippets to ponder (by candlelight of course)…

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha

“Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.” – William Arthur Ward

“Choose neither women nor linens by candle-light.” –Italian Proverb

On Thursday, October 21nd the candle will play a starring role in the provincial-wide Candlelight Dinner Event. Designed to create awareness and conserve energy, select restaurants in communities across BC will serve dinner only by candlelight. Come help set the mood for energy savings!

In our hometown Nanaimo, the following restaurants are hoping to spark your interest:

Modern Café 221 Commercial Street – (250) 754-5022
Manzavino’s Pizzeria & Italian Grill 77 Skinner St – (250) 754-7745
Buzz Coffee House 4515 Uplands Drive – (250) 758-2881
New York Style Pizza & Pasta 299 Wallace St – (250) 754-0111
Cornerstones, Grand Hotel 4898 Rutherford Rd – (250) 758-3000
Cedar Room, Tigh-Na-Mara 1155 Resort Dr (Parksville) – (250) 248-2072

The night will be even more special for Team Power Smart members, who will get one of three exclusive discounts. Join up today and check out the Team Power Smart Member’s Toolbox to find coupons for either a 2-for-1 entree, $5 off per person, or a complimentary appetizer or dessert, depending on the restaurant you visit.

See you in the soft glow of the candlelight!

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Kiwi Cove Lodge featured on the cover of British Columbia Magazine!

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Aidan
Kiwi Cove Lodge featured on the cover of British Columbia Magazine!

Kiwi Cove Lodge featured on the cover of British Columbia Magazine!

The Fall issue of British Columbia Magazine is out on news stands and it’s a special one! The cover story is a highlight of various speciality farms throughout BC and “explore[s] the rise of exotic crops in the province, with visits to four unique farm operations featuring fresh foods and charming B&Bs”.

One of our members, Kiwi Cove Lodge, located in Ladysmith, is one of the accommodations highlighted in the article and made it to the front cover! Pick up the magazine today to read the fabulous article or visit the official website of Kiwi Cover Lodge for more information on the lodge.

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There’s an App for That! Explore Vancouver Island with your iPhone

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Aidan

For the tech-savvy out there, Jamie Moore, a Nanaimo-area travel writer, has created an iPhone App (application) all about the great travel and adventure opportunities on Vancouver Island. And, of course, Nanaimo is front-and-center!

/A\ Channel News has all the details:

Want to know the best spots to land a huge salmon or watch thousands spawn? Need help navigating the island’s wine trail? Looking for fun kid-friendly activities? It’s all here in the palm of your hand: The best of the island and its hidden gems – from Victoria to Port Hardy – with tips on peak times to see wildlife, which trails to avoid if you’re not hard-core, easy ways to save money and more.

Vancouver Island Exploration Guide is the island’s most complete app guide out there. And it keeps getting bigger. Download it and you get free updates for life. Here’s what else:

•130 entries & 742 colour photos
•Photo slideshows to help you decide where to go
•All-new insider hints, tips and descriptions from an islander
•Google maps with directions and pushpins for each entry
•GPS tracking so you know what’s nearby
•50+ FREE attractions and activities
•One-click website links and phone calls
•Offline content you can access anywhere
•Entries sorted by name, distance, price and region
•The ability to post interactive comments, save favourites, share photos

Make the most of your time on the island that readers of Conde Nast Traveller magazine consistently rank the “Best North American Island.” This easy-to-use app will take you to the best spots and give you practical advice along the way. Start traveling like a local today.

Vancouver Island Exploration Guide

The Vancouver Island Exploration Guide for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Vancouver Island Exploration Guide

Many of Tourism Nanaimo's wonderful Members are featured in the App!

You can download the Vancouver Island Exploration Guide for $2.99 on iTunes.

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Keira-Anne profiles Gabriola Island and loves it!

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Aidan

Sunset on Gabriola Island - Image © Aidan Moher

Sunset on Gabriola Island - Image © Aidan Moher

Nanaimo is full of wonderful day trip opportunities and Gabriola Island is one of absolute best. Just a quick ferry ride from Nanaimo Harbour, Gabriola Island is home to laid-back artists, beautiful beaches, bustling cafes and friendly people. Kiera-Anne, a popular Vancouver-based blogger, recently gushed about our little Gulf Island secret.

She says:

What makes Gabriola Island so incredible is the varied topography. Forests, beaches, rock cliffs, arbutus trees and brightly coloured floral splashes everywhere you look only add to the natural charm. Gabriola Island is home to three provincial parks, the most notable being Descanso Bay Regional Park. It’s where you will find the Malaspina Galleries – a display of breathtaking natural sandstone formations that seem more likely to be found on the planet Mars than coastal BC.

We couldn’t agree more! If you’re looking for a fun, easy day trip, Gabriola Island has everything you could ask of from one of the world famous Gulf Islands. So, whether it’s a sunny, spring morning, or a blustery fall afternoon, why not hop on the ferry and check out Gabriola Island, one of Nanaimo’s true gems!

About Kiera-Anne:

Born in the small fishing town of Port Hardy and raised in the Comox Valley, Keira-Anne uses her lust for the lost art of language to provide hyper-local Vancouver Island content with a healthy dose of life in the city. Though she escapes back to the Comox Valley at every chance she gets, Keira-Anne has called downtown Vancouver home for more than half a decade.

Head on over to Kiera-Anne’s blog to read more about her experience on Gabriola Island and see some wonderful photos.

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Video | Playing Wild at WildPlay Element Parks – Tourism Nanaimo Takes the Plunge

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Aidan

It was the jump of a lifetime, a hundred and fifty foot heart-stopping drop to the river.

I held Olivia in preparation for a tandem jump, and our pulses were racing, beating like a jungle drum between us. The attendant pressed Olivia’s cheek into my shoulder, and then started the countdown. We held each other, and our breath, then suddenly…

We flew!

A few days ago we brought you King Cumming’s account of his first Bungy Jump at WildPlay Element Parks. It proved so popular that we wanted to follow up the article with something even cooler: a video of King’s jump. So, buckle up and enjoy the ride!

More information on Bungy Jumping at WildPlay Element Parks can be found on their website. You can also follow them on Facebook and Twitter.

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Cruise Ship Season hits Nanaimo Harbour!

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Courtenay

Last Saturday’s weather was not the most agreeable for tourists in Nanaimo but thankfully the rain did not discourage droves of cruise ship passengers to disembark and take in many of the city’s highlights. If you were in Nanaimo, you probably noticed the large Celebrity Millennium parked for the day on the east side of Protection Island; and if you were downtown there is no way you could have missed the hundreds of people milling about.

Cruise Ship Season hits Nanaimo Harbour

The Celebrity Millennium sits in Nanaimo Harbour

Downtown Nanaimo pulled out all the stops and made a very good impression. From the Downtown Farmer’s Market with musical entertainment provided by Wellington Secondary School and John Barsby Community School band students, to an RCMP officer dressed to impress in full regalia, and many of the downtown restaurants serving up Nanaimo Bars like they were going out of style, there was never a dull moment, that’s for sure.

Cruise Ship Season hits Nanaimo Harbour

Busy, busy, busy!

Cruise Ship Season hits Nanaimo Harbour

Tourism Nanaimo & DNBIA team up to help visitors!

The passengers were from all over the world; we met people off the ship from Europe (Britain, Germany, the Netherlands), North America (as close as Seattle and as far away as Virginia, Maryland and Mexico) just to name a few. For some it was their first time to Nanaimo, and for others it was a second or third return trip to the Harbour City.

Cruise Ship Season hits Nanaimo Harbour

Courtenay & Zoe, ready to welcome you to Nanaimo, the Harbour City!

Some passengers took tours to nearby attractions like Cowichan Valley, the “Wine Valley of the North”; others headed west to Coombs and Port Alberni to see the goats on the roof and the McLean Saw Mill. Wherever they ended up the feedback was great, especially from those who stayed in Downtown. According to many of the passengers, Nanaimo is the most welcoming port they have ever been to, and with so many services set up specifically for the cruise ship passengers – like a free shuttle provided by DNBIA and Tourism Nanaimo from the harbour to the Old City Quarter and a DNBIA volunteer to greet every passenger that disembarked, and help them to plan out their day – it’s no wonder they felt welcomed!

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Just another evening in Nanaimo

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Aidan
Sunset on Ruxton Island

Sunset on Ruxton Island

Photograph © Aidan Moher, 2010

Taken on Ruxton Island, just a quick boat ride from Gabriola Island, Nanaimo Harbour and Ladysmith. We’ll never get tired of sunsets like this!

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Playing Wild at WildPlay Element Park

Posted on September 16, 2010 by King Cummings

WildPlay Elements Park, Nanaimo, BC

Tourism Nanaimo – Bungy Jumping at WildPlay Elements Park in Nanaimo, BCIt was the jump of a lifetime, a hundred and fifty foot heart-stopping drop to the river.

I held Olivia in preparation for a tandem jump, and our pulses were racing, beating like a jungle drum between us. The attendant pressed Olivia’s cheek into my shoulder, and then started the countdown. We held each other, and our breath, then suddenly…

We flew!

The river raced towards us, but we felt as if we were soaring above the water. As if we had grown wings, we were weightless, endlessly floating. The moments extended into timeless flight– the few minutes felt like hours of experience.

Tourism Nanaimo – Bungy Jumping at WildPlay Elements Park in Nanaimo, BCThe ground came launching up towards us, the cool air that blankets the river rushing past our faces. We whooped and hollered and still heard the intake of breath between us.

Bungy jumping is a thrilling, bucket-list trip of a lifetime. We live in Nanaimo, so the adventure is in our own backyard, but people come from all over the world to jump and fly and test their spirits.

It was worth every penny, I promise you that. Once you jump, you will be addicted to the thrill and dream of the experience over and over again.

Tourism Nanaimo – Bungy Jumping at WildPlay Elements Park in Nanaimo, BCJumping with a friend is very cool, but I watched a girl jump before us, and she requested the head dip into the water. That looked like something I would try next, or maybe even the annual nude bungee jumping event, to raise money for charity.

As we were heading back home to rant and brag to our friends, we passed a giggling group of foreign exchange students racing and shrieking through the trees on zip lines, experiencing the west coast rainforest by way of Monkido Aerial Adventure Courses.

WildPlay is for the wild at heart, for the untamed imagination!

- King Cummings

More information on Bungy Jumping at WildPlay Element Parks can be found on their website. You can also follow them on Facebook and Twitter.

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Check out our brand new Calendar of Events!

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Aidan
Tourism Nanaimo's new Calendar of Events

A fresh look for Tourism Nanaimo's Calendar of Events

At Tourism Nanaimo we’re always looking to improve our services and the usefulness of our website as a tool for visitors, residents and businesses alike. In that pursuit, we’ve developed a brand new Calendar of Events, and it’s got a ton of great new features:

  • Subscribe – One of our favourite features is the ability to subscribe to our Calendar of Events via iCal (send it straight to the calendar on your computer or cell phone), RSS and email. Any of the three options will allow you to stay completely up-to-date with all the events we post.
  • List/Calendar – It’s the best of both worlds! You can view our Calendar of Events as either a full calendar or a list of upcoming events. Try ‘em both out and let us know which you prefer.
  • Submit an Event – It’s never been easier to submit an event to the Tourism Nanaimo Calendar of Events. Just fill out the form and voila!

And, on top of these great enhancements to the performance of the calendar, it looks even prettier, too! So, what are you waiting for? Go and check out our brand new Calendar of Events.

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