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FAMILY DAY LONG WEEKEND When: Monday, February 15. SD47 students also have Friday, February 12 off. What: BCâs annual Provincial stat. Where: In your own home. Enjoy.
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604-414-6112 ⢠604-414-4699 PANDEMIC PARTNERS: Powell River artist Ursula Medley and her American daughter-in-law Vanessa Beatriz Golenia on the Blackwater Creek Trail. This power duo is about to celebrate Family Day February 15.
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If you would have told me that one day Iâd be 36, unemployed, living with my mother-in-law in an old mill town in Canada, I would have choked on my own spit and asked you â where did I go wrong? After a decade of bouncing between New York City and Los Angeles, of thinking of myself as a perennial city girl â here I am, in Powell River â living a life I never imagined, thanks to COVID. Some days, I think back to my former pandemic-life in Brooklyn. I wonder if our neighbors are still going only as far as their fire escapes for fresh air. If friends are still washing their clothes by hand in bathtubs because the laundromats are closed. And if the six roommates who lived in that small apartment downstairs havenât killed each other yet. Every day that I get to walk alone through Powell Riverâs emer-
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Things to do: As of press time, nothing had been 9.untilIf it ever wears out compost it. announced due to COVID restrictions, which last February 5 at midnight. 10. Makes you 50 to 90% more handsome. (results may va ald forests, Iâm bewildered by how lucky I am to be here. Who knew that falling in love and marrying a Canadian would one day be the equivalent to winning the lottery? With the exception of a few short visits, I had never spent much time in Canada before COVID. As an American, my impression of Canadians was â they look like us, they speak like us, theyâre basically us if we were forest creatures. What Iâve learned over the last
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