In Person: Cherie Hanson

In Person: Cherie Hanson

Constant Creator By Donna Sturmanis Kelowna digital artist and poet Cherie Hanson continually exhibits her unique art in various venues ranging from wineries to galleries, reads her poetry at arts events, teaches a wide variety of classes to people aged 3 to 80, and...
In Person: Tamra Davison

In Person: Tamra Davison

She’s part dedicated wife, mother and grandmother, part nature lover, part marketing guru, part Jill-of-all-trades and all around traditional family woman with a passion for the possible. As a young girl growing up in Olds, Alberta, Tamra Davison was something of a...
In Person: Shaun Bos

In Person: Shaun Bos

One Busy Woman of the Year “If you want something done, ask a busy person.” Kelowna’s Shaun Bos is one of those busy people and her efforts were recently recognized with the Sarah Donalda Treadgold Memorial Award as Kelowna’s Woman of the Year. As a child, Shaun moved...
BrainTrust Peer Support Program

BrainTrust Peer Support Program

Most people do not realize that stroke is brain injury – and can sometimes be referred to as a “brain attack.” In fact, a stroke can injure the brain like a heart attack injures the heart. In 2007, Rhonda sustained both a brain aneurysm and a stroke which caused...
In person: Dorothy Dalba

In person: Dorothy Dalba

With her Renaissance hair and statuesque figure, your eyes follow Dorothy Dalba wherever she walks on the rehearsal stage. Okay, so the leather bustier, fishnets and stiletto heels for the starring role in Venus In Furs aren’t exactly what Botticelli had in mind for a...
Wildcraft Harvester Don Elzer

Wildcraft Harvester Don Elzer

Wildcrafter, Artist, Writer and Publisher Life might be a box of chocolates for some, but for Don Elzer it’s a cup of tea—and it’s wild. It’s also about a foraging plantation in the woods, paintings, sculptures and a publishing company. Located in Lumby, Don’s...