Stories

Going Green – The “R” Words

by Tina Kelly -  Reduce, reuse, recycle is a classic environmental mantra. This trio of R-words roll nicely off the tongue and as a slogan it's as old as I am. While the specific origin of reduce, reuse, recycle is debated, the slogan rose in popularity during the environmental movement of the 1970s and has

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New & Noteworthy

by Annilee Armstrong -  News, changes, updates, launches? Email noteworthyseaside@gmail.com.   COMUNNITY FUNDRAISER On Your Mark, Get Set, Go! The Parkland Track campaign is still running. Work on the new track has started but they are still in need of raising funds to resurface it. This track is widely used by the community, as well

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Impromptu

by Janis Jean Photography -  When my daughter was little, I used to love taking her to Beacon Hill Children's Farm. I think it was more for me than for her – which explains why I was so thrilled for my Seaside assignment at the new Farm Experience at Country Bee Honey Farm. The cuteness

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Steph’s Day Out – Marks on a Page

by Stephanie Staples | photos by Amanda Cribdon Photography -  I opened the email from a friend, unsuspectingly. "Would you be interested in posing for the Sidney Shoal Portrait Painters (SSPP) group? It takes place every Tuesday afternoon and you sit for approximately two hours. It's a great experience and I think your beautiful features

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Meet Your Neighbours – Dr. Gordon Henderson: Passing the Torch, Keeping the Passion

by Anne Miller | photo courtesy Shoreline Medical -  Remember school dances in the 70s? This story begins around 1977, on stage in Kamloops, when Gordon Henderson and fellow musicians assembled a rock-and-roll band they called Steamer, playing locally, then basing themselves in Toronto and performing across Canada. With Gordon as vocalist, song-writer and guitarist/pianist,

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July Book Club

by Deborah Rogers -  We held our July meeting outdoors and a larger group meant lots of insights into our selection, Emily St John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility. It's a book that defies easy categorization, but our starting point of agreement was that Mandel's writing is beautiful. Sea of Tranquility spans hundreds of years and

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