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Please Join us in Welcoming

Shift in Action

To the Chamber of Commerce!

Meet Eva Grodt, founder of Shift in Action. Eva started this group in 2009 and is still going stong with over 460 members on their mailing list. "Shift's" focus is on healing and understandfing the mind-body-spirit connection and gathering like-minded people to grow and learn. Eva and her team are constantly investigating new pathways of living; gaining more awareness in the power of the mind; having more meaningful relationships with oneself, others, our communities, and our world.

Culture Days in Qualiucm Beach:

A Story of Beach Creek

and Other Fish Tales

"The Art of Nurturing Nature" is something to celebrate on BC and World Rivers Day September 24, 2023. Hand painted wooden salmon will be on display near the Qualicum Beach Visitors Centre. This event will feature a hands-on paper fish decorating activity. All ages welcome.

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE CAREER CENTRE

IN SEPTEMBER?

“Understanding Brain Injury” during Disability Employment Month

Coping with the consequences of brain injury can be difficult for everyone. Join us at the Career Centre (your WorkBC Centre Parksville) September 20 from 4-5 pm as staff from NBIS (Nanaimo Brain Injury Society) help us understand the impacts of brain injury, how each journey is unique, and the support available to us. (Upstairs in Suite 328)  

Everyone welcome! Call 250.248.3205 to RSVP. Click here to learn more!

The Employer Pulse Check #3 - Tell us about your hiring experience this summer!

Were you short staffed? Did you hire new employees? What hiring initiatives did you employ to ensure you had optimum numbers in order to operate?

Please take this four to five minute survey! Your feedback can shape community knowledge on the labour force.

Pathway to Trades for Youth 16-29

Prepare for employment in the electrical and carpentry trades and earn free certifications. Trades exploration will be delivered in partnership with VIU right here in Parksville! 4 weeks paid onsite work experience included. Click here to learn more!

Money Back on Training

Take advantage of the WorkBC Wage Subsidy Program while there is still opportunity! Sign up for one of the following VIRTUAL Wage Subsidy Info Sessions: September 6 @ 1:30pm or 20 @ 3:00pm. Call 250.248.3205 to register.

Advisory Planning Commission Meeting

September 13, 2023

2:00 pm

Council Chamber (in-person only)

View Agenda HERE

Business after Business is Back!

September 28:Qualicum Beach Lawn Bowling Club

It's time to get together and re-connect with your fellow Chamber Members! Come down to the Qualiucm Beach Lawn Bowling Club and check out their amazing indoor lawn bowling facility. Build your team and get ready to take on other businesses from 5-6PM. After a bowl we will network and mingle from 6-7. Nibbles are available and the bar is open!

We will be hosting a Business after Business event each month for the next year. Next month we will be going to the Qualiucm Curling Club! If you would like to host a Business after Business Event Please contact our office and we will make it happen!

DOUBT - A Parable

October 12 to 29, 2023

WHAT'S NEW AT THE

MID-ISLAND FLORAL ART CLUB?

Nanaimo, BC: Newcomers to Canada who want to pursue a career in the trades will get some extra help starting this September, thanks to a new program at Vancouver Island University (VIU).

Called Trades Pathways for Newcomers, the cohort-based bridging program supports newcomers looking for a career in the trades by ensuring they have the skills, knowledge and supports to successfully transition into the educational programs that will get them there. 



OWBN Welcome Back Social 

Deadline to register is fast approaching...

Our OWBN Welcome Back Dinner & Social will be at the beautiful Qualicum Beach Inn for a night of networking and fun.

Come out and meet with your fellow businesswomen and help us kick off a great season. We are the only group for women in business to network in Oceanside and the mid island.

Registration link is below for Tuesday Sept 19, 2023.

DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS THURS SEPT 14 @5pm

Location: Qualicum Beach Inn

2690 Island Highway West

 Qualicum Beach

Time: Doors open @530pm

Price: $52.50 Members & $60 Non-Members and Guests

We encourage you to bring a guest or friend to see what we

are all about!

(Register your guest using the same link).

Members can bring a prize for the member draw and a chance to share what's happening in your business.

Local shops who would like to partipate are being asked to donate a gift or certificate of $20 or more value. Expect a great deal of traffic on that day as all members of teh Seniors' Activity Centre are beting encouraged to participate. There are prizes available and a banquet for the winners too!

PQB NEWSTORY OF THE WEEK

Qualicum Beach council Approves Fern Road

Four-Plexes

Qualicum Beach council has approved a two four-plex development for Fern Road.

Council voted in favour of a development permit and a land use and subdivision bylaw amendment to rezone the empty lot at 172 Fern Rd., where a single-family home used to be.

Sales’s presentation mentioned the four-plexes will be two-and-a-half storeys tall, slightly taller than the next door single-family homes. The developer plans to build the adjacent sidewalk and so it will not be neccessary for them to contribute to the Village Neighbourhood Sidewalk Reserve Account, Sales added.

The Latest News from the

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

The Business of Business: Supporting Small Business with TD’s Tara-Lynn Hughes 

Despite Canada’s strong entrepreneurial spirit, SMEs face immense challenges that are unique and unlike those large businesses face. In this latest Business of Business video, our President and CEO Perrin Beatty sits down with Tara-Lynn Hughes, Senior Vice President of Retail Banking at TD as they look at the challenges that small businesses face and how they can best be supported.

Help Shape a Business-Friendly British Columbia | Impact of Cost Increases on Business Survey

Qualicum Beach Time Capsule:

School Days: The Early Years!

With a sparse population education was a worrying problem for early Qualicum Beach residents. The first school in Qualicum Beach opened in 1896 after the wagon trail from Nanaimo reached Qualicum. The school was located at Memorial and Island Highway. There were twenty-two students and one teacher.

After three years, three families had moved away so the school closed. When Frank and Cora Jones came to Qualicum in 1907 with a family of 11 children, they decided to start a school on their farm on what is now Jones St. Frank had built a new house for the family and turned the old house into a school. The the provincial government paid the teacher's salary and the teacher boarded with the Jones family. In 1913 the school house burned down. Mrs Jones cleaned up a chicken house on the property that was used for the rest of the term.

The next term was held at a house located on Memorial Avenue between Second and Fern. The house had a basement and it was there on each school day that the mothers took turns making soup for the childrens' lunch. The children would bring bread and in-season fruit. The building known now as 'the Old School House' opened for students in the fall of 1914. It had 41 pupils and two teachers: Miss Clara Ruth and Miss Kate Ede. High school students had to go to Nanaimo until about 1924 when there were enough students to start a high school class.

QUALICUM BEACH CINEMA SOCIETY & TIFF FILM CIRCUIT PRESENTS:

Jules

September 17, 2023

7:00pm

What's New at the Old School House?!?

EXHIBITIONS