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 admin | Sep 1, 2017 | Profiles
Alexander McNaughton can’t get over the abundance of wild food in Powell River. It’s one of the first things he noticed when he moved here earlier this year with his girlfriend. But Alexander is a professional food forager so it stands to reason that he would notice...
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...
by Sean Percy | Jul 5, 2017 | Community, Profiles
Ursula Medley is a fourth-generation artist. She was born in Bogota, Colombia and immigrated to Vancouver in 1950. She settled in Powell River in 2001. An art educator and art activist with a passion for creating community through art, Ursula is a prolific painter...
by Sean Percy | Jul 5, 2017 | Community, Profiles
By Kirk Somers Colin MacRae had been living in Victoria, where he grew up, when he came up to Powell River to visit a friend. This was back in 2008. Having never been here he started looking around, and was intrigued by what he saw. Here was this pristine, beautiful...
by Sean Percy | Jul 5, 2017 | Community, Memoir, Profiles
As long as I can remember, running has been where I’ve felt most comfortable. The feel of my body moving through space, the wind, the matched sound of my footfalls and my own heartbeat. By Mel Edgar There’s a freedom. I don’t have to worry about anything: if my face...
