President’s message (February 2020)
A new grandchild has arrived in the family named Emmaline Odette (after a suffragette and a spy) happily distracting me from winter rains. Excitement has swept over the extended family with …
President’s message (January 2020)
A friend’s Facebook post suggested that I type, “In 2020 I am going to” and then let the predictive text feature finish the sentence for me. Apparently I am going to …
President’s message (November 2019)
I didn’t have a lot of honey this year, like so many beekeepers on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. I would like to blame it on the long winter, short …
President’s message (October 2019)
I watched as Greta Thunberg sat at the table of the United Nations Climate Summit and chastised my generation. She had been the catalyst behind the march of hundreds of thousands, …
President’s message (September 2019)
For some people it is pulling the boat out of the water, cleaning the hull, packing the battery and stowing the PFD’s. For others, it is shuttering windows, packing sheets and …
President’s message (August 2019)
If, hypothetically, you got yourself invited to spend a week in the desert with 70,000 other people, in a place where you had better have enough water to cope with …
President’s message (July 2019)
January 1848, Coloma, CaliforniaMay 1861, Central Otago, New ZealandAugust 1896, Klondike, YukonJuly 2019, China Beach, BC Yes. They are all gold rushes; stampedes, great gobbling glitter seekers hiking into the hills …
President’s message (June 2019)
Alanna put out the word. The Swan Lake bees are gone! And the hunt was on for the swarm. A little story in the newspaper generated a large amount of interest …
President’s message (May 2019)
I am sure that Carolyn is smug in her Kia as she glides by the gas pumps and Don is shuddering every time he pulls into the station with his …
President’s message (April 2019)
I know. How you can you miss me if I won’t go away! Plans of moving house have been shelved and all the boxes of life’s souvenirs have been thinned …