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    <title>Nanaimo's Archaeological Treasures: To Showcase or Hide?</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ On the Harewood Plains Petroglyphs
These carvings  used to be  kind of   secret &ndash; relatively unknown petroglyphs out in the Harewood Plains section of Extension Ridge.
Until recently, when people asked about rock art in Nanaimo, they were usu... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2008-10-05 22:18:11</pubDate>
    <category>Nanaimo Interest</category>
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    <title>RRROLL UP THE RIM !!! (Then throw it out. Repeat. Thanks.)</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ I saw four people sitting at a table in  Tim Hortons, drinking coffee. They had the ceramic mugs  you get when you don't order &quot;to go&quot;. They also had four disposable paper cups, which were clean, but had been shredded  for some reason.
Ah ... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2008-03-08 00:03:56</pubDate>
    <category>General Topics</category>
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    <title>Exploring the Nanaimo River Estuary</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ The Nanaimo River Estuary is just south of downtown. The clean, rushing water scatters all kinds of sediments into the ocean to form a wide delta loved by gulls, eagles, oysters and log booms.
Three of us took to a canoe and a kayak, and explored th... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2008-02-21 19:59:30</pubDate>
    <category>Outdoors</category>
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    <title>Exploring Snake Island, Nanaimo BC</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ 
Four of us went to Snake Island in a couple of canoes. It's a long way: 6 km from Downtown Nanaimo. The waters were calm that day, which was very good because Snake Island is out in the bigger waters of the Georgia Straight, and canoes aren't good ... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2008-02-18 02:54:26</pubDate>
    <category>Outdoors</category>
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    <title>Urban Parkland: Protecting Intangible Commodities</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ Everyone knows that parks are important for a happy city, with many thriving cities distinguished according to the proportions of their greenspace.&nbsp; Urban parks are therefore well protected, rarely compromised by any public or private developmen... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2008-02-16 21:45:25</pubDate>
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    <title>Swimming to Protection Island</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ I've become accustomed to canoeing home from work in the evenings, to my place on Protection Island. I love it.
But I was annoyed at work today, because my canoe was back on the island without me (long story), so I was going to be riding the boring ... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-11 03:21:44</pubDate>
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    <title>Nanaimo Undermined</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ When you walk in Nanaimo, you should be imagining that the ground beneath you might be honeycombed with passages. 

There used to be thick layers of high-grade coal underneath Nanaimo, some of it buried more than a hundred meters below sea level. I... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-02-19 00:13:26</pubDate>
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    <title>Smoking Arbutus</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ I like to peel the bark off of arbutus trees. No, not in a mean kinda way - it's my favourite species of tree. I only peel the parts that are rolled up, because they're ready-rolled for smoking!
I betcha you didn't know you can smoke the bark? (No, ... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-01-21 15:02:21</pubDate>
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