In the Community

Sick Monday I could feel it coming on. Suddenly the house wasn’t warm enough and I couldn’t get comfortable on the couch. I grabbed my thermometer and went to bed, took my temperature and it was 100 F, so I knew something was up.

Joe Gonsalves (‘Portuguese Joe No. 3’) founded Madeira Park in 1904, establishing its business infrastructure and naming it after the island of Madeira. Our community has many family members living here today.

Judy Dunbar and husband Gary Sananin have created this colourful assemblage of floats in front of their home on Franklin Road in Gibsons, dedicated to health care and other frontline workers during the pandemic.

Drew Murphy, the acting principal at Elphinstone Secondary School, will be retiring at the end of this school year after 34 years in the profession. “I’ve had a deeply rewarding career at SD46.

Your Mental Health

Fear of contagion, economic catastrophe, fear of the unknown, and isolation. These are just some roots of the anxiety preoccupying us all in this new COVID-19 “normal.

Hello everyone in Halfmoon Bay. After four years of writing the Halfmoon Bay Happenings column, I will be stepping down and handing the column to another Halfmoon Bay resident who loves our community as much as I do.

I am eternally thankful for the staff at Sechelt Hospital – they are the best. The whole community is grateful for nurses, doctors, grocery store staff, paramedics, other essential service workers and our own neighbours.

For the next couple of issues I will be sharing stories of my fellow Creekers. I asked a couple dozen people these four questions: 1. Are you doing work differently now? 2.

We voluntarily gave up our Easter Dance, Lions Club Easter Family Celebration, May Day and countless community events and celebrations over a month ago to be safe and stay at home.