BEST RESTAURANT FOR ROMANCE 1. Laughing Oyster 2. Coastal Cookery 3. Little Hut Curry
BEST COFFEE SCENE 1. River City Coffee 2. Base Camp 3. Starbucks
PRL notes: This is the most hotly-con-
BEST RESTAURANT TO IMPRESS VISITING GUESTS 1. Laughing Oyster 2. Coastal Cookery 3. Shinglemill
tested category in the whole Best Of. It was last year too. River City and Base Camp are close... close enough we did a re-count. Interstingly, online voters prefer Base Camp, but those who voted on paper overwhelmingly preferred River City.
BEST GROCERIES - PRICE 1. Save On Foods 2. Quality Foods 3. Safeway
BEST SERVER 1. Mohinder Singh – Little Hut Curry 2. Alyssa McLeod – Striker’s 3. Haley Smith – Magpie’s
BEST GROCERIES – OVERALL
MOST VEGETARIANFRIENDLY RESTAURANT 1. Fruits & Roots 2. Royal Zayka / Little Hut Curry 3. Vietnamese
BEST FOOD ON BC FERRIES
1. Save on Foods 2. Quality Foods 3. Safeway
BEST PIZZA 1. Papparazzi 2. Granada 3. Snickers / Haylstonz
PRL notes: Four great pies, all locally-
1. There is none / snarky 2. Fries 3. Chicken strips
owned restaurants. How many cities can say that?
BEST KID-FRIENDLY RESTAURANT 1. Moose & Eddie’s 2. Magpie’s 3. River City
BEST PLACE TO ASSEMBLE A CHEESE PLATE 1. Quality Foods 2. Safeway 3. Chopping Block
BEST BRUNCH 1. Magpie’s 2. Edie Rae’s 3. Julie’s Airport
BEST CAMPFIRE FOOD 1. Chopping Block’s smokies 2. Mitchell Bros. 3. Marshmallows
BEST PRODUCE 1. Farmer’s Market 2. Save on Foods 3. Safeway
2017 Brooks Secondary School
Dry Grad Committee Thanks the following for their contributions to our grad celebrations Armitage Mens Wear Better Bodies Gym Blue Steel Imaging Bolton’s Brooks Secondary School Canadian Tire Capones Canadian Martial Arts Academy Chopping block City Transfer Coast Fitness Coastal Cookery Credit Union Families of the Grads that volunteered so much time Fits to a T Greg Labree Electrical Haylstonz
Image 1 Salon & Spa Intimate Secrets Jack van Zwietering Construction Loretta Cameron M, L & H Holdings Malaspina massage Maxine Scott Moose & Eddies Oceanview Helicopters P.R. Kings Pacific Coastal Pacific Point Suites Paperworks Gallery Quality Foods Raffin Gallery Red Lion Pub Rexall Rock-It Music
Royal LePage Safeway Shoppers Drug Mart Spring Time Nursery Starbucks Sublime Fashions Swanson Distributing T&R Contracting Taws Texada Transfer Tim Hortons Valley Building Supplies Vanderkemp Sales & Service Villani and Co. Walmart West Coast Thick Westview Pet Hospital
A special thank-you to these generous contributors for going the extra mile: Aaron Services Adam Culos Beach Gardens Resort Brookfield Power City of Powell River English Enterprises Lockeroom Sports Marina Munro-Gustafson
Marine Traders PR Recreation Complex Palm Beach Estates Pollen Sweaters RONA Save-On Foods School District No. 47 Powell River Western Forest Products
And an extra special thank-you to:
PRL notes: Irrelevant this wildfire-rid-
den summer, but come fall, campfires will be back. Chopping Block smokies are one of the iconic Powell River foods. The big, meaty, juicy smokies come in cheddar and bacon, hot and sweet, plain, deer meat and other choices. What would William and Kate eat in Powell River? These.
Photo by Laura Mohr at Little Mohr Photography & Jen Parkin Photography
Bathtub Races
3 pm Saturday, Aug 5 and 1 pm, Sunday, Aug 6
Watch pilots race their modified bathtubs around an ocean circuit as part of the Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society World Cup. Watch at Willingdon Beach. This space available to non-profit organizations, courtesy City Transfer
Where service and safety move volumes.
Next day, damage-free delivery. WWW.CITYTRANSFER.COM
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