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One bean at a time

One bean at a time

Did you see what she did to him, did you hear what they said? —Lou Reed, “New York Telephone Conversation,” ...

An Introduction to Vol. 43

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Q&A with Denise Mitchell

Q&A with Denise Mitchell

Denise is the owner of Denise Mitchell Interiors, a luxury interior design studio based in Campbell River. She has ...

Denise Mitchell Interiors: Discussion with Campbell River designer

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A trip to Okinawa, the birthplace of karate-do

A trip to Okinawa, the birthplace of karate-do

For many of its practitioners in the West—Europe and the Americas, say—karate is a sport. However, when practiced ...

Members of a Courtenay dōjō experience the culture of their traditional martial art

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The watery history of Lewis Park

The watery history of Lewis Park

Tracing the watery past of Lewis Park and the efforts to hold back the riverIf forced to pinpoint the ...

​​The struggle for a beloved gathering place

The Dirt on Biochar

The Dirt on Biochar

Biochar is a word that many of you may not have heard before, but it describes something as old as the hills, as ...

Black Gold

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Featured Poet: Naveena Gill

Featured Poet: Naveena Gill

I still remember that very first evening at Goose Spit Park. All the way from Toronto, the Valley welcomed me with ...

Mysterious orange sky: a poem about a sunset over Goose Spit

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Just keep moving

Just keep moving

ELDER VALLEY: REFLECTIONS FROM AN OLDER RESIDENT  As an undergraduate student of literature, I read “The ...

Meet me in the park. We’ve got some walking to do

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