Tag Archives: Pieta Woolley

Community

Running in the rain is “relaxing” 

Originally published on qathet Living

No matter what the weather is this week, Doug Lanigan has been out running in it at least four of those days. The 63-year-old instrument mechanic usually runs the trails through Lot 450, covering dozens of kilometres a week, usually by himself. “My big problem is my hands get cold,” he said. 

“But once I get going I’m fine. I remember one morning when I got up when the kids were young, it was about 5:30 am, and I opened the door. It was windy, blowy, and rainy, and I thought, ‘Nah, I’ll go back to bed.’ No, I made it out the door, and five minutes in, I was fine.” 

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Justice

RCMP are frustrated, too 

Originally published on qathet Living

At the RCMP Detachment on Barnet Street, the phones ring all day and night Police officers get an average of 18 calls a day asking for service – many of them reporting new Criminal Code violations that they want addressed. 

In qathet in 2021, there were 1,655 crimes reported. Many categories of crime are up over 50% in four years. They include assaults, break and enters, criminal harassment, possession of stolen property – crimes that appear in Isabelle Southcott’s main story. 

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Military

Watching the war from Townsite

qathet Living, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

After work on the evening of Wednesday, February 23, Rostik Artiushenkov and Anna Honcharova relaxed at their Townsite home, deciding what to watch on Netflix.

Soon, both were stuck to their phones, watching Instagrammed images of rockets flying over Kyiv – where Anna went to university. After weeks of posturing, Russia had invaded Ukraine.

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Environment

Weird West Coast weather: panic globally, Act locally

qathet Living, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Growing up, no one Anastasia Lukyanova knew drove a car. They didn’t need to. Her family lived in a sixth-floor apartment in a ten-floor highrise, in Ufa, Russia – a dense, mid-sized city of about a million, sandwiched between two rivers

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Food, Food Security

Food sustainability strategies for the West Coast’s weird weather

Four articles from qathet Living, via the Local Journalism Initiative

By Pieta Woolley

Even though she lives on a shallow well, Cathy Ickringill kept her garden going strong last summer. It flourished through the record-setting June heat dome and even the drought that followed. 

It helps, of course, that Cathy is the nursery manager at Mother Nature – so she knows a thing or two about gardening in weird weather. One key, she said, is shade cloth. The black, see-through fabric is suspended above the outdoor nursery at the gardening store, partially covering the plants. This year, the store will add more, to protect the whole nursery. 

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