From Werewolf to Detective: Greyston Holt’s Salt Spring Island Roots
In our BC Day conversation with Greyston Holt, he tells us about stripping down, borrowing a friend's big black lab, and running howling through the West Vancouver forest...
Nine Fire Seasons as a Vancouver Island Crew Leader
Kyle Gilson has spent nine fire seasons with BC Wildfire Service, all of them right here on mid-Vancouver Island, and for the last several years he's...
Roy Henry Vickers at 80. 50 Years. 400 Works.
Roy Henry Vickers described looking through fifty years of his own paintings and said it felt like meeting a stranger who happened to be him. I've interviewed...
Harry Manx Finds His Way Back to the Studio
Few musicians have a backstory quite like Harry Manx's. Born on the Isle of Man, he left at six years old, so young that when his...
Ten Emigrations Later, C.C. Humphreys Still Isn’t Done Wandering, or Writing
Chris Humphreys has emigrated ten times.
He said he's a serial emigrant, not a settler. Which makes it all the more interesting that thirteen years on Salt...
The Food Bank Down the Road Is Busier Than You Think
4,591 Families.
That's how many the Mount Arrowsmith Salvation Army Food Bank has served in just the first five months of this year. Last year's...