Archives for September 2015

After years of occupying temporary locations all over town, important social service will soon have a permanent home to call its own When local lawyer Brian Stamp read the headline in the October 3, 2013 Campbell River Mirror that read, "Time running out for Campbell River … [Read more...] about CR Hospice Society
finally finds its foundation

For 40 years, Preston Jewellers has been one of the first storefronts to welcome visitors to Campbell River’s downtown core. Behind the blue awning and the glass windows on Shoppers Row is a subdued, climate-controlled store of treasures. Glass display cases gleam under pot … [Read more...] about Jewels in the Crown

As an airplane pilot, Roy Wharton was best known for losing his passengers before the plane landed. But they kept coming back for more. Wharton, 60, is co-founder and owner of Pacific Airsports Skydiving and patriarch of the ParaPacific Skydiving Club, both of which operate … [Read more...] about Understanding the
gravity of the situation

Chief Billy Assu was always ahead of his time. The progressive leader of the Cape Mudge First Nation not only ensured a residential school was never built in his community but, under his leadership, the Cape Mudge Village was the first area on Quadra Island to have running … [Read more...] about At the heart of Nuyumbalees

Wayne Bell has always been one-of-a-kind. From a young age, he was undertaking physical feats that his older siblings and cousins would shy away from and he could perform First Nations traditional dances that he was never taught. So it was no surprise that by five-years-old, … [Read more...] about Passing on the art of weaving