by Sean Percy | Jan 3, 2018 | Community, Memoir
By Jean Medley It had been another long day riding the ridge of mountains that bisects the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. We could have cycled for another two hours, but decided to stop when we saw what seemed like a perfect campsite. We began setting up our...
by Sean Percy | Nov 2, 2017 | Community
You can learn a lot by helping. And you can learn a lot from being helped. For PRL’s third annual “Helping Issue,” two women who have been on both sides of Powell River’s charity scene share how gratifying it is to help others. In their own words, as told to Kirk...
by admin | Oct 3, 2017 | Community, Memoir, Profiles
Who is haunting this house?: In 1927, newlyweds Elena and Angelo Culos, above, had their picture snapped on the steps out front. Three years earlier, his parents, Anthony and Anna Culos, had built it. In Italian tradition, they may have placed special family artifacts...
by Sean Percy | Aug 3, 2017 | Business Connections, Community
A perfect sunset. At Willingdon. The dock in silhouette. Photos like these represent the “Best of Powell River” – or at least what many locals think of as the pinnacle, if Instagram and Facebook feeds are any indication. But there’s so much more to the “best of”...
by Sean Percy | Aug 3, 2017 | Community, Last Word
“I’m going to miss them,” says Don Carto, scratching Jackie behind the ear as he looks over at the other donkeys, Willie, Angel and Jill. “They’re my buddies.” For more than 20 years, there have been donkeys on the Wildwood Hill. “They’re kind of a landmark,” says...
by admin | Aug 2, 2017 | Community, Profiles
The Red Alert Wall is one of the largest walls in North America south of the Arctic and until last month, it hadn’t been climbed. Most climbers didn’t even know it existed. On July 6, Cranbrook’s Travis Foster and Drew Leiterman began climbing the 1,500 metre...
