ONLINE IN MAY May 10
My Child is Starting Kindergarten
6:30 Zoom. Info session for parents of September 2021’s Kindergarteners. See ad on Page 35 .
May 6 to 16
Powell River Garden Club annual plant sale
A list of available plants with description, size, and price will be emailed to garden club members on May 6 and shared online on May 8. You have until May 11 to submit your order by email. All plants are on a first come first served basis. We schedule an appointment for you to drive by and pick up your plant order at the Curling Club on Sunday, May 16. See powellrivergardenclubblog.blogspot.com for full details
May 7
From Ideas to Finished Book: A Writing Life
4pm via Zoom. Acclaimed author Jen Sookfong Lee will discuss the initial ideas for a selection of her titles, and talk about how the idea became a work-in-progress and then a finished book, with readings throughout. To register mmerlino@prpl.ca
May 15
A Journey Back to Nature
2pm, Zoom. Historian Catherine Marie Gilbert presents a pictoral talk about the history of beautiful Strathcona Provincial Park on Vancouver Island. To register mmerlino@prpl.ca
May 29
Award Winning Novelist Michael Christie
2pm via Zoom. Michael Christie will be reading from and discussing his bestselling novel Greenwood, an intergenerational saga that centres on one Canadian family and their deep linkage with trees. To register mmerlino@prpl.ca
Need A COVID Test? You can get help: NEW LOCATION Same website DRIVE-THRU TESTING
Now at the Medical Clinic Associates Register: prcomplexclinic.com (preferred) or 604-485-3572 9 am - 11 am M-F (except stat holidays)
A message from Powell River physicians
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EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT • if you have severe symptoms • if you can’t wait for a DRIVETHRU appointment
GOBYBIKE WEEK MAY 31 TO JUNE 6
Feel free BY CATNIP
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h bicycles... wonderful little machinations of movement. They are so freeing. I painted this work “Still Free” during the beginning of our collective trauma, this ride some call COVID. With everyone inside, reading the news, having zoom meetings, and baking bread, I was out riding my bike. Some days at the beginning there, the streets were actually so empty, and I wouldn’t see a single soul on the Willingdon Trail. One day I strapped a large yin yang flag to the back of my bike, just to share with whoever was to
observe, that peace is still prevalent in these heavier moments. However that day, I’m sure there was no one who laid eyes on me from Townsite to Westview. It was a quiet, lovely ride – solo, somewhat dystopian, yet still so freeing. So I came home and took a giant piece of wood and painted this coded illustration to remember those very short days of peaceful apocalypse. Glad we made it through so far, and now we ride for those that didn’t. There might be a long road still to go, but here in our geographical location, if you’ve got two wheels, some handlebars, a frame, and a heartbeat, you just might be alright.
