Hi everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful week and were able to manage the continued poor air quality. Leaves are starting to change, and the temperatures are getting cooler overnight, so let’s enjoy every sunny day we can.
This week’s home-based business being featured is Kym’s Plants in Halfmoon Bay. Kym moved here from Mayne Island after completing the Landscape Horticulture Program at Capilano University. Kym chose the small community of Halfmoon Bay to raise her daughter. Kym is a certified landscape horticulturist with just over 30 years of experience specific to the Lower Mainland, Gulf Islands and the Sunshine Coast. This is the fourth season that Kym’s Plants has been open for business and items for sale feature deer-resistant perennials, a wide variety of trees, shrubs, grasses, flowering plants and veggies.
“Propagating and testing species new to this area is a great passion of mine and I am fortunate to have made a career out of playing with plants,” Kym says. During this pandemic, she adds, “the community support has been fantastic. There were lineups for the greenhouse at times, but everyone observed social distancing and wore masks.”
It is so important to nurture living things, grow your own veggies, marvel at the beauty of the amazing colours of flowers especially during the last few months of strange and trying times. If you’re in the neighbourhood, be sure to visit Kym’s Plants at 7910 Fawn Rd. where you’ll find pansies, violas, asters, mums and some fall/winter veggies. She will be open until mid-November and by appointment during the winter. “There are plenty of perennials, trees and shrubs that can be planted now, which gives them all winter to establish.”
Thank you, Kym, for being there for the community and adding some colour and living things for us to enjoy.
Recently the Royal Canadian Search and Rescue Halfmoon Bay Station 12 (RCM-SAR12) team were tasked to a vessel which had run aground near Thormanby Island. “It was a 22-foot Bayliner caught on some rocks just outside of Buccaneer Bay. When leaving the bay, they cut the corner too sharp. There were three persons and one dog on board,” an RCM-SAR12 spokesperson said.
The SAR team were at the vessel in seven minutes after the initial call for help. The coxswain and crew could see the stern and drive on the rocks with the bow tilted and floating in the water on a receding tide. Another person in a dinghy was present prior to their arrival and was assisting. Everyone on board was OK and all were wearing their PFDs (personal flotation devices). “As the bow eye was under water, the coxswain secured a line to the bow cleats for a ‘pull off,’ with no success.”
All three people and the dog were safely brought on board the Ken Moore, SAR12 vessel while the coxswain remained on the rocks. The crew secured the towline and pulled the vessel free. The vessel was floating and after inspection, they found a small leak that the bilge pump handled easily. The RCM-SAR12 spokesperson said the vessel “was towed to the owner’s dock and our crew returned to base for the night to put our rescue vessel and themselves, to bed. Thank you to the work of Adam, Bart and Frank, for their response on the call, safety planning and teamwork. Another day, another tasking for RCM-SAR12. Bravo Zulu to all involved.”
RCM-SAR12 is 100 per cent volunteer and relies on fundraising for most of their capital and safety gear. If you would like to help them save lives on the water, go to their website (rcmsar12.org) and click on the Donate tab. These volunteers are extremely proud of what they do, and we are incredibly grateful knowing that they are there for us should the need ever arise. Thank you RCM-SAR12, Halfmoon Bay!
Have your “Say at the Bay,” please contact me before 5 p.m. on Mondays. cindy.kisser@telus.net.
Be kind, be gentle, be safe.
