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World traveller Nanaimo internist Dr. Lawrence Winkler is now working on his ninth book and feels like he is just beginning to warm up to some of his best work
LANTZVILLE
Voters select four new councillors AARON HINKS DAILY NEWS
and replaced it with another typewriter.” Another challenge Winkler faced was that the city and surrounding area, based in Idaho, was engulfed in wildfires. Familiar with the author from his teenage years, Winkler was also inspired by Hemingway’s worldly adventures, which have found a parallel in his own life. Four of his earlier books are a series that details how he left medical school in Winnipeg to spend five years hitchhiking around the world. “I was actually an intern and I sort of got to the point where I needed to see the world before I couldn’t see anything anymore,” he said.
Lantzville voters have selected four new councillors, following a special byelection on Saturday. Bob Colclough, Mark Swain, Will Geselbracht and Dot Neary will be officially sworn in on Aug. 31. A total of 37 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots, a number that impressed mayor Colin Haime. “The voter turnout during a summer byelection for a partial council is an excellent turnout compared to, for example, the City of Nanaimo, which was 34 per cent for a regular election and a complete council,” he said. “The turnout exceeded my expectations.” Colclough, a former superintendent of public works for the Lantzville Improvement District, received the most votes with 602. “I’m looking forward to it, there were a lot of good candidates. I think the others that got in are great and it’s going to be a great council overall,” Colclough said, adding he would like to see meaningful work take place right away. “I like to get things done and I want to move things forward. I want to deal with water issues whether it’s contaminated wells or new housing. The other big priority would be the revitalization of the village.” The new councillors fill the seats of Jennifer Millbank, Rod Negrave, Dave Scott and Graham Savage. Following their resignations, the former councillors all signed a letter that was mailed to the community stating they “do not condone” alleged inappropriate behaviour from “some members of council.” Haime doesn’t believe it will take long for the new councillors to acclimate themselves. “In regards to the previous council, since it was such a short period of time, not a lot was in motion at the time. I don’t think there will be any problem getting them up to speed and hit the ground running,” Haime said.
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Internist Dr. Lawrence Winkler at his home near Westwood Lake. Winkler is at work on his ninth book, which details the adventures he gets into with friends when they take a trip to the Amazon. [JULIE CHADWICK/DAILY NEWS]
‘Wagon Days’ will be presented Sept. 3 at local library
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riting, for Nanaimo doctor Lawrence Winkler, is something the adventurer and world traveller feels he simply must do, lest it eat him up inside. Initially, his literary agent seemed surprised at the volume of material Winkler felt inspired to produce, remarking that many people only seem to have one book in them. However, now at work on his ninth, he feels he is only just warming up to some of his best work. The old-timey advice for authors, of course, is “write what you know.” And for Winkler, what he knows is sourced from a broad landscape of material. Based primarily on his life experiences, many of his books are based in his travels, which range from a five-year trek in which he hitchhiked around the world, practised medicine in some unlikely locales and met
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the love of his life, to his latest — as a symbol of his search for book which centres on a quest authenticity. to America to rediscover what As a man who was all about became of the Old West. nature, and dying an authentic The resulting treatise, Wagon death, he stood as a sort of figure Days — which he will present at that embodied the notion of the a reading (6:30 p.m.) on Old West, said Winkler. Sept. 3 at the Nanaimo “The Old West was a North Library — traces a paradigm for that. The two-week road trip taken people in it were real by Winkler and his wife and authentic, so my Robyn through Montana, view was that when Wyoming and Idaho. Hemingway died, the “I looked at every state, Old West really died and I looked at the most with him,” he said. “So significant historical linking all that up, I things that had hapwanted to see what Julie pened in every state, had happened in each Chadwick for example Custer’s of those places and see last stand in Montana,” how it had molded him.” Reporting said Winkler. “And not They decided to travel just historical things, to Hemingway’s last like Sandpoint, Idaho home in Ketchum, Idaho. was supposed to be the most “He had a Royal typewriter beautiful town in America, so we in his den and I wanted my finhad to go there. The other thing gers to play on those keys,” said was, there was a Hemingway Winkler. “Unfortunately what I connection.” didn’t know was in the planning A huge Ernest Hemingway of getting to Ketchum to type on fan, Winkler worked him into that typewriter, they sold it off the trip — and into his narrative to an auction house in Chicago
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