For the past month, a group of Grade 5 and 6 students at École Dorothy Lynas Elementary in North Vancouver, B.C., have been collecting community donations for homeless youth. Fifteen gift boxes will be distributed through Hollyburn Community Services Society.
Coast theme for Thurso Camera Club s first competition of the year By Alan Hendry Published: 07:28, 13 February 2021
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Beacon of Hope, by Margaret Reid.
Thurso Camera Club s first competition of 2021 featured coastal scenes ranging from weather to wildlife and from surfing to sea-stacks.
Zoom allowed the club to draw upon the skills of accredited judge Steve Kirkby, an experienced photographer based in Hampshire, for its meeting on February 1.
There were 38 submissions on the theme of The Coast, and Steve gave constructive comments on each individual entry which consolidated the general advice he had given at the outset.
A year ago, he and his wife, Larisa, shared their expectations for 2020.
“Hers was that there would be a lot of change and it would be a busy, stressful year, but you’re going to overcome it,” he said. “And mine was that it was going to be a year of healing.”
His voice is quiet and raspy, a vestige of him spending more than four months on a ventilator after undergoing a heart and double-lung transplant in June, followed by near-fatal complications.
“We look back now, and we’re like, Thank you, Lord,’” he said, sitting in the living room of his parents’ home in Hilliard. “I got the healing part, I just didn’t think it would take a year.”