Share this! Give the jacket off your back! Coats for Kids and Families is looking for winter gear. The annual collection of jackets and warm winter clothing for Coats for Kids and Families is underway! Drop boxes are at the Salvation Army, Westview Baptist Church, Town Centre Mall office and Wal-Mart until November 10. Thank you for all your donations from the Lions Club, the Salvation Army and...
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Share this! I’d never been on an overnight hiking trip before Alex, my 17-year-old son, invited me to go to Wednesday Lake with him on Labour Day weekend. “Sure,” I said, thinking what a great opportunity it would be to spend some one-on-one time with my son. I imagined myself skipping up hills, jumping over logs and barely breaking a bead. After all, I am a jogger. I can trot the 8½ kilometer...
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Share this! With Hallowe’en falling on a Monday this year, the spirits will be out all weekend, enjoying the many festivities. Make the most of the annual return of the restless dead with this frighteningly-complete Hallowe’en planner. Powell River Hallowe’en Events Friday, October 28 Pumpkin Pool Party 10:00 – 11:30 am Recreation Complex Party for preschoolers Halloween...
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Share this! Last fall while visiting Roberta, a dear friend in Houston, Texas, we went to a wine and art night. After finding the event online, her interest was piqued–and I was terrified. I’m an artistic person, but painting is not my forté. The teacher re-created a painting, showing the group, in step-by-step instruction, how to make our own acrylic creations that we got to take home. I was...
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Share this!Anna May Bennett is on deadline for the biggest painting commission of her career – by far. Working out of a sparse studio upstairs at Townsite’s Bank of Montreal building, the landscape painter has until October 15 to finish four large panels. By fall of 2017, those panels will be transformed into a 69-foot-long mural in the main corridor of the new BC Children’s Hospital...
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