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Horse Tales

By Dee Walmsley on Sep 30, 2011

Three-year-old June Henning thought she was a horse. From an early age, she learned to escape her dysfunctional family by entering her very own fantasyland where animals, especially horses, ruled. Read more...

A Dream Come True

By Kevin McKay on Sep 30, 2011

Growing up in Seoul, Korea in the early 1970s, Yuna Seder really stood out amongst her high school peers. Most Korean women do not attain great height, but at five feet ten inches (183 centimetres), Yuna was a veritable giant, and she was teased. Read more...

Having a Riot

By Kevin McKay on Sep 30, 2011

Despite the fact he is a bona fide member of the British Columbia Entertainment Hall of Fame, Bill Reiter is not a household name. His face, on the other hand, is more familiar. Read more...

Faith, Trust and Hugs

By Judee Fong on Sep 30, 2011

Reverend Stanley Sinclair, affectionately called “Father Stan” by his parishioners, speaks proudly of St. Mark’s Traditional Anglican Church’s new home. Read more...

Grace at Any Age

By Vernice Shostal on Sep 30, 2011

Valerie Egan was drawn to modelling because she is tall, thin and loves clothes. The former Physical Education teacher turned high school administrator says she never had to ask for anything special or anything that was in vogue when she was young because her mother, a talented seamstress, made all of Valerie’s clothes. Read more...

Making Accidents Happen on Purpose

By Anne Swannell on Sep 30, 2011

Jenny Waelti-Walters, printmaker, photographer and painter, spent her working life as a professor in the Department of French and Director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Victoria. Since she “retired” in 1997, she has been recreating herself as an artist, and a successful one at that. Read more...

Spoonerisms

By Bob Thompson on Sep 30, 2011

Prior to opting for a career with the provincial government, I was a radio announcer, starting at CFQC, Saskatoon, and then on to CKRM, Regina, next stop was CFJC, Kamloops, until I finally arrived at CJVI in Victoria. Read more...

Dream Weaver

By Selinde Krayenhoff on Sep 30, 2011

To approach Leola’s Studio at the back of Whippletree Junction is to enter the realm of creative possibility; a riotous garden of teapots “bloom” outside her main studio door. Read more...

Telling it Like it Was

By Margaret Growcott on Sep 30, 2011

Ask retired high school teacher Julia Turner what her favourite subject is and she will undoubtedly say “History.” This history, however, isn’t a high school subject but the recounting of her illustrious Irish family. Read more...

Flashback Freddy

By Enise Olding on Sep 1, 2011

If a young Fred Wortley had not succumbed to the lure of money, Flashback Freddy may not be performing today. Every time his sister wanted to practise for the school dance, Fred became her willing partner - at 50 cents a session. Read more...

Grace in the Midst of Difficult Times

By Carol Matthews on Sep 1, 2011

Born in Vancouver, Cathie Borrie’s extensive and diverse working life has included careers in health, law and business. For seven years, she cared for her mother, who had Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, which led her to write a rich memoir of that experience in The Long Hello, The Other Side of Alzheimer’s. Read more...

An Enduring Faith

By Vernice Shostal on Aug 2, 2011

Born and raised in Paraguay, Emma Salmon-Plett, author of An Enduring Faith, a novel chronicling the trials of the Mennonites while they moved from country to country looking for a place to freely practise their faith, has personally endured and persevered to overcome language, health and financial obstacles. Read more...

Hang Johnny

By Dee Walmsley on Jul 29, 2011

John Watkins lives in two worlds; by day he paints, not portraits but interior landscapes. He is a house painter plying his trade since 1978. Read more...

The Joys of Music

By Enise Olding on Jun 28, 2011

In the 1970s, Marilyn Rummel heard a recording that influenced many in her generation - "Le Renaissance de la harpe Celtique" by Alan Stivell. Hearing that "made me aware of the possibilities," she says, "and later when I saw a Celtic harp and put my hands on it for the first time, well, within 10 minutes of ever having seen and touched one I bought one - and that was it!" Read more...

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