Share this!In the previous story, the Captain and I were able to secure a piece of Paradise in Stillwater by the Sea on the Sunshine Coast of B.C. Stillwater is located 20 km south of Powell River. The property consists of a house, which we have rented out, six R.V. sites complete with tenants(I come to refer to this as the refugee camp), and we have two and one half gorgeous acres of Old...
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Share this!Kaitlin, my daughter and I return to Vancouver after a hot and sunny Labour Day weekend spent in Powell River on the Sunshine Coast. Catching the B.C. Ferry at Saltery Bay, the peace and quiet of Powell River falls behind and the rush of reality builds. Driving down the lower Sunshine Coast through Sechelt and past Gibsons, B.C. the traffic grows and the race is on! Lines of cars and...
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Share this!We have spent ten days, ricocheting from eye specialists to neurologists in the beautiful, but hectic City of Vancouver, B.C. Kaitlin my daughter has gone blind in one eye, with threat of total blindness due to an undiagnosed anomaly in both eyes. She has yellow dye injected into her veins most days, her pupils are dilated most days as well. It is an attempt for the specialists to...
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Share this!This story takes us to the Sunshine Coast via an intervention in life that happened right in the middle of a sunshiny day. We had no thoughts of pending trauma as we sat around the crackling spruce fire that afternoon, our lives would change in hours and nothing will ever be the same again. I bring this story to you because the outcome of this medical investigation affects 100,000...
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Share this!This new monthly series by “Sunny” Dawn Kostelnik is a continuation of her “Adventures of the Audrey Eleanor,” a collection of stories that she wrote for the Whitehorse Star from June 2008 until December 2010. These Adventures are about life onboard a 1948, 54’ wooden yacht travelling from Haines, Alaska to the Sunshine Coast of B.C. Her fans were asking for...
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