Steve Edelman
Sometimes years have gone by without us connecting but Steve Edelman will always be one of my closest friends. I suspect you might have a friend or two like that as well...

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Steve Edelman
Sometimes years go back without us connecting but "Dr. Johnny Jumper" will always be one of my closest friends. We have a bond that is overshadowed only by the connection I feel with my daughter...

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Anja Holland
This letter from 9 year old Anja Holland to her grandfather was written last spring and somehow got lost in my "in" basket, but it's never too late to print a letter like this. I think you'll agree that this young girl has something to teach us all...

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Joy Brown
Several months ago Marilyn Assaf told me about a wonderful thing that happened to her last Christmas. The further she got into the story, the more I could feel her energy and excitement...

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Compassionate Friends
Ten days before his 18th birthday, Myrna Skaling’s son was riding his motorcycle north on the Island highway towards home when a car coming south turned left into the Nanaimo Golf Club in front of him. He was killed almost immediately...

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Dawn Anderson and Teresa Pring
After thirty-four years of fruitless searching, the Salvation Army Christmas Kettle Campaign has brought two childhood friends together again...

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Shannon Gillespie
Traditionally every year at this time, the graduating class from Malaspina's Education Department does a little fundraising to pay for their graduation dinner and celebration...

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Jack Arrol
Bill Pineo is a retired school bus driver and a Neighbourhood Hero who, among many other accomplishments, brought the BEARS and BEAMS programs to School District #68 (Be Enthusiastic About Reading Success and Be Enthusiastic About Math Success)...

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Julie Bull
Julie Bull was a close friend of Stephen Smith, the well-loved Gabriola teenager whose life was taken from him last May 17th in a violent attack at a party here in Nanaimo. At that point, although she was soon to graduate from NDSS, Julie thought that much of her future had been ripped from her along with Stephen’s life...

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Roxanne Allen and Barbara Henoch
No matter where you live, if you want to change your neighbourhood for the better, Roxanne Allen has some tips for you...

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Don Clayton
Do you remember the column I wrote about Chas Clayton? His son, Don, is a good friend of mine...

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Bruce Richman
Bruce Richman's name has been entered in the Neighbourhood Heroes draw to win a spa weekend getaway for two and you could get your name in the draw too. All you have to do is nominate someone you know as a Neighbourhood Hero and you could be a winner...

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Women's Pace Group
Last week, I wrote about Kerren Fraser, the woman who discovered an inner strength she didn't know she had, thanks to her experience training with the Women's PACE group to run the Victoria 10K race last May...

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Heart And Stroke Foundation
Just One Place These Two Have Fun
Neighbourhood Heroes aren't "heroes" as defined in the dictionary; they are role models, people who are doing something in their lives from which you and I can learn.

In their retirement ... and throughout their lives ... today's Neighbourhood Heroes, Dale Huck and Bill Horman have committed themselves to making a difference in their community but they've always insisted on two things: they must work in teams of two or more and everyone must have fun...

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Chas Clayton
We have all been surrounded by Neighbourhood Heroes throughout our lives. Think of your parents, grandparents, other relatives and their friends, many of whom have long since passed away...

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Trevor Prince
Today's Neighbourhood Hero is a young boy whose quick action saved another boy's life ... but that's not why he is a "Neighbourhood Hero"...

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Mom and her Neighbours
They were friends and neighbours and if it hadn't been for their support, my mother would not have been able to spend the last years of her life living in her own home and enjoying her independence, something that was of utmost importance to her...

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Alex Korn
When you live on Vancouver Island, summer means visitors, and visitors bring their stories; some may be stories of Neighbourhood Heroes. Alex and Dorry Korn, two of my closest friends from Toronto visited me recently...

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Eve Reinalz

Did you ever have a great idea, an idea you thought about and talked about over and over again, but you never actually did anything ... except of course think and talk ... and then one day the idea disappeared from your mind, forgotten, undone?

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