Share this! By Charlene Reinisch “Wow, I don’t know how you do it.” This is usually the statement that follows when my husband and I share that we have five children. And of course, I know why people might wonder. Raising a big family can be demanding. There’s a lot to keep track of and, I admit, it’s totally draining sometimes. The reason it works? It’s because there are three of us parenting...
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Share this! You might remember him as Prince Eric in the musical, The Little Mermaid. Or bringing down the house as the Cowardly Lion in Wizard of Oz. At the Hap, you may have seen him play defence with the house league. But now, Jeremy Hopper is getting ready to graduate this June, alongside 211 other Brooks Secondary students. Powell River’s most-recognizable grad of 2016 is going to the...
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Share this!My Dad, PJ Behan, is a 64-year-old retired mill worker that has lived in Powell River his entire life. He regularly goes to the gym and rides his bike to stay fit, and be social, in his retirement. He rides his bike a few times a week with the same group of guys, most of whom are also retired. A group of them once rode from Powell River all the way to the Mexican border, just for...
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Share this! By JP Brosseau Even in kindergarten, I knew that I was different. It was 1972. At Cranberry Lake Elementary School, I preferred to play “kitchen,” making meals with small, replica boxes of food and plastic fruit and vegetables, instead of the brightly coloured, wooden tools and trucks. Too young to notice the gender-bending antics of David Bowie, acknowledge the gay humour of Billy...
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Share this! On May 8, Mother’s Day celebrates the world’s oldest responsibility–and passion project. Powell River Living caught up with five local moms of prominent children–now adults. “Proud” doesn’t begin to cover it. Malerie Meeker and her son Tristen Tristen Chernove, my second son, was diagnosed in 2009 with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a degenerative nerve and muscle disorder. It doesn’t...
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Share this!Karen Maurage and her husband, James Lazaruk, are from Vancouver, and they began planning to move away from there over a year ago. They originally started their search for a home on Vancouver Island, but eventually changed that search to include the Sunshine Coast. After visiting a friend in Powell River, they immediately fell in love with not just the area, but the feel of community...
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