EDITOR’S FIX

Contributors

ANDREW VALLANCE is a cinephile nerd who currently lives on the west coast. Girlfriendless, he spends his time going to movies, buying DVDs and flirting.

ANGE QUALIZZA is a nutty economist who has a passion for policy, governance and everything to do with municipal government! Let’s lift up the carpet and take a closer look inside City Hall.

ASHLEY KRISTINA has studied astrology for over twenty years and has been reading/teaching for five. For an in depth natal chart reading, email mountainashastrology@gmail.com.

BRAD PARSELL is the manager of the Fernie Chamber and loves working with our local vibrant business community. He is also a music nerd with an ever-growing collection of records in his basement.

DANYAL TAYLOR is an all year-round adventurer. You can find him hiking in the remote wilderness, crossing crevassed icefields in winter, and bagging peaks at any opportunity possible. You can see more of these adventures @danyaltaylor.

JESSICA BOZOKY quit her editing job in Australia to chase the snow. Having settled in Fernie, she’s found herself at home surrounded by mountains (of books). JIMMY VALLANCE is a former Fernie SS teacher and has spent most of his life reading, walking among, and occasionally climbing, mountains and cycling both gravel and highway. JULIE KELLY is the Manager for the Fernie Trails Alliance and loves spending time on the Fernie trails. KEVIN MCISAAC haunts the coffee shops and streets of Fernie to find his column source material.

MICHAEL HEPHER is a painter, printmaker, sculptor and musician living and working in Fernie. His work is collected internationally and can be seen at Clawhammer Press and a variety of galleries in Western Canada. Every month SADIE ROSGEN teams up with some of Fernie’s brightest young writers collaborating on a given theme. If you are reading this and think that you are that person, drop her a line at sadiepumps@gmail.com.

DR. TAINA TURCASSO is a naturopathic doctor and midwife practicing in Calgary, Alberta. She spends most of her time catching babies, and is inching her way back to Fernie. TYLA CHARBONNEAU is a Registered Psychologist (CPBC2385), dog momma, and nature lover. She loves talking with others about mindfulness, self-compassion, and human nature. I went to the University of Victoria. It attracted me for many reasons. It was far from home, but familiar enough as we had travelled there as a family. Only two members of our FSS grad class were going, and I craved not only distance but change. And it was always warm and sunny! Wasn’t it?

In my second year, Victoria broke its record for the most overcast days in a row and it was in the 90s… like, over 90 days straight of gloomy clouds above. It typically didn’t even rain, they just hung there, weighted and casting a dismal heaviness and grey hue to all below.

Until one February day, the sun shined brilliantly in the sky and the change was immediate… everything radiated energy and light and there was an excitement in the air. What I always remember is how it wasn’t until that moment, when the first ray of sunshine met my face, that I realized just how that stretch of overcast impacted me.

By the time the July Fix hits the stands we will hopefully be in Stage 3 of BC’s Reopening Plan. The sun is shining after a time of fear and uncertainty. And while there is so much we have learned and discovered, there is still so much more to be found. It’s not a return to normal, because what even is normal? Do we want to go back there? What about instead we forge ahead and be brave, curious, open and honest! Discover new and better ways to be as individuals, families, friends, businesses, organizations and governments. It has been an extremely challenging and in many ways devastating time, and the best way to honour that is to learn from it and make change.

We hope this issue shines a little light on you and inspires you to discover something new!

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By Krista Turcasso, Editor

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